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TEEN FITNESS CONCERNSEating Disorders

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  TEEN FITNESS CONCERNS
  Eating Disorders
  
  Weight lifters, body builders, gymnasts, wrestlers and jockeys are all at a higher risk for eating disorders. While most people who suffer from eating disorders are in their late teens and early twenties, eating disorders are affecting people at younger ages more than ever before.
  
  Eating disorders are usually related to emotional problems. Most eating disorders generally start with a weight-loss diet that started just before or after:
  
       Major life changes like going to a new school or the onset of puberty
       Serious family problems such as divorce or drug and alcohol abuse by a family member
       Trauma such as sexual, physical and verbal abuse
  
  The three main types of eating disorders are:
  
  Anorexia Nervosa
  As an eating disorder, anorexia nervosa is complicated as well as dangerous. A person with anorexia has intense fear of gaining weight, refuses to eat enough to get adequate nutrition, loses a least 15 percent of her/his body weight, insists that there is fat on his/her body even when none exists and is preoccupied with her body image.
  
  Anorexia affects all the body functions including the digestive system. Anorexia also causes a person to lose hair, have fainting spells, headaches and in females, loss of menstrual periods.
  
  Bulimia Nervosa
  When someone suffers from bulimia nervosa or bulimia, he or she binges a large quantity of food in a short time and surges, using laxatives or taking diuretics, also know as water pills.
  
  Bulimia also does major damage to the body. It can cause ulcers in the stomach, throat and mouth...