Eating Disorders

The eating disorders are responsible for higher mortality rates. The vast majority of those suffering from eating disorders are adolescents and young women. One of the main reasons why young people suffer from anorexia is because they want to be stylish and so they go on strict diets. In the past people considered that only girls suffered from eating disorders but it has been proven that boys are also affected. The most common eating diseases are anorexia and bulimia. Both can lead to death.

Maria Bouça

Eating Disorders - Marta

An eating disorder is a compulsion to eat, or avoid eating, that negatively affects both one's physical and mental health. The eating disorders affect every part of the person's life. When the person sees his image in the mirror, he sees a very fat reflection.
Bulimia is when one person eats large amounts of food and provokes throwing up.
The anorexia is an anormal weight loss associated to mental illness.

Marta Encarnação

Healthy Eating - Lionel

We should all have a balanced diet. We should eat a bit of everything and several times a day. Principally we should avoid fats. If we don't have a good diet we can get eating disorders like obesity, bulimia and anorexia. Many people suffer from these disorders and therefore we should all take care with what we eat.

Lionel Silva

A Balanced Diet - Filipe

We all should have a balanced diet. Good and healthy food is essential for the good functioning of our organism. To have a balanced diet we should be varied in what we eat. We must avoid fat and eat a lot of fish and vegetables. When a person doesn’t have a balanced diet it takes the risk of getting diseases like obesity, anorexia and bulimia. Therefore we should all be very careful with what we eat.

Filipe Silva

Eating disorders and cultural pressure - João

There are psychiatric diseases that have origin in the interaction of psychological, biological, familiar and socio-cultural factors. They are characterized, fundamentally for significant alterations of the food behaviour. It is known that cultural pressure increases the dissatisfaction and the preoccupation with weight. Society promotes fashion and slimness as fundamental aspects of a successful life.At present to be beautiful is to be thin and to wear fashionable clothes.

João Machado

beauty or health? - Raquel

Before caring with your look it's more important to look after your health. For a good health it's necessary a good diet. It seems easy but there are many problems related with eating. anorexia, bulimia and obesity are examples of this.
I have an obese cousin, she has respiratory problems, her kidneys don't work right and her heart is wrapped in fat.
Bulimic people get seroius stomach problems because of the efford to throw up after eating.
All these problems lead to psychological disturbances and they can take us to death.
We have to be careful with our health.

Raquel Areal

Eating disorders - Catarina

An eating disorder is a compulsion to eat or avoid eating, thawhich ist harmful for physical and mental health. It affects every part of the persons life, such as school results, day-to-day activities, relationship, ans so on.This problem is becoming bigger and bigger and there aremore and more teenagers with this problem. Anorexia and the are the most frequent problems.The anorexia is an anormal weight loss associated tomental illness. When the person sees his/her image in the mirror, he or she thinks that he/she is very fat.The bulimia is when one person eats large amounts of food and provokes throwing up after it.

Catarina Campos