In previous post we talked about the different eating disorders. There are many people suffering from anorexia, bulimia, orthorexia, vigorexia … All these disorders are the result of obsessions and other problems that we carry and are manifested in food or obsession with a particular lifestyle. This time we delve deeper into a condition suffered by many athletes and is known as sport or anorexia athletica anorexia.
Never good to obsess over the physical as this which will be lead to excesses that in most cases can spend bill? Usually eating disorders are just that, abnormal behaviors in eating habits. This time the condition does not only touch the supply side, but also vary the sportsmanship of the person who has it, which as a rule tend to be athletes and people interested in healthy living.
As mentioned, this condition occurs only among athletes and is characterized by intense fear of gaining weight and becoming obese, thus eliminating the effects of years of physical activity, and ending with a definition and muscle tone. The person with BPD will do its best not to get fat and still maintain a perfect athletic body longer. To achieve these people what they will be drastically reduce caloric intake and increasing the hours of training, increasing the intensity.
Many with this disorder also used diuretics and reduce fluid intake, since in this way achieve greater muscle definition. This fact, together with decreased caloric intake and increasing exercise to burn more calories will bring a number of consequences for the person with the disorder, since no body can bear this situation for long.
It is important to pay attention to signals for determining whether or not this disorder suffer, and we need to control food intake and whether we are giving the body what is necessary for the sport. Too slim to be below the recommended weight and keep seeing overweight is one of the main symptoms. More exercise of schedule and increase the hours devoted to the activity must be a consistent data. The change of mood is also often a factor to consider, as well as avoid the meal times to avoid temptation.
Alongside this there is a variable disorder known as bulimia that sports which take place affected binge eating and then vomiting and make sport so compelling to purge the excess food and thus avoid weight gain. It is important to pay attention to these disorders, as occur in sports that many people do not take into account attributed to a healthy life affected when their behavior is not at all.