Eating habits can change your life into a healthy one, but can also lead you to anorexia or bulimia. It all depends on the healthy or disordered eating habits. Media shows us all kind of diets and exercises confirming that losing weight and calories has become an obsession even though they can lead to illness, with not so pleasant consequences.

Up to 4 percent of females suffer from anorexia. Sings of anorexia include:

- fear for weight gain and body fat

- great ambition in losing more and more weight

- misperceptions of weight

Anorexic persons that deny the food do not realize the danger they are exposing to and they keep seeing themselves as overweight even though they are incredibly thin.

The symptoms of anorexia are:

- considerable weight loss; refusal to keep a normal weight according to age and height

- deliberate choosing to skip meals

- eating especially non-fat

- often weighing

- visible food restriction and self-starvation

- obsession with continuous exercise

- obsession with weight and complaining of weight problems

- isolation. Fear of eating around and with others

- wearing big or baggy clothes or dressing in layers to hide body shape and/or weight loss

- dizziness and headaches

- loss of menstrual cycle

- lack of sexual desire

Two types of anorexia (combined or not with bulimia) are known:

Restricting Anorexia - The first type of anorexia is found at those anorexics who severely limit their caloric intake and/or who exercise to excess to lose weight.

Binge-Eating/Purging Type: The second type of anorexia is found in those anorexics who eat in binges and then purge the body of the ingested food either by self-induced vomiting, the ingestion of large quantities of laxatives, the overuse of diuretics and enemas to rid the body of food.

Eating disorders also have a treatment that in most of the cases has benefic results over the body weight and health. The complexity of anorexia requires appropriate medical care meaning psychological advice, nutritional counseling and sometimes medication.

After the medical treatment the anorexics should have restored their lost weight but they should also be psychologically remounted, being well known their need of rehabilitation.

Treatment is not the most wanted thing at an anorexic, in most of the cases they do not even admit that they are ill. When it comes to the treatment the anorexics strong opposition can lead to a hard psychological work which only a crony could take to an end.

Depending on the case, a short or long term treatment is needed. In most of the cases the long term treatment involves all main processes including especially psychological advisory.