The truth about human 'unusual' eating syndrome

Nocturnal syndrome, eating everything, anorexia nervosa . are weird diseases.

People who want to maintain life need to load nutrients and energy into their bodies by eating. In order to have good health, it is necessary to combine diet and proper exercise.

Now, scientists have discovered an increasing number of disorders that cause a reversal in eating, making this process abnormal and seriously affecting health .

1. Nocturnal syndrome

Night Eating Syndrome (Night Eating Syndrome) is a new disorder that has been discovered and studied in recent years. During the day, people with disorders eat less than usual, showing prominently that they often skip breakfast or eat very little in the first half of the day.

At night, these people often suffer from insomnia and . go find food for the stomach. But after being full, they still find it hard to find sleep again, sometimes staying up all night. According to a survey of scientists, because more than half of the energy intake in a day is consumed after 8pm, up to 33% of people with this night syndrome are obese.

The study also shows that the cause of nocturnal syndrome is often related to depression, stress, nervous stress, and it has a high risk of metabolic disease, especially diabetes.

2. Anorexia nervosa disease

Anorexia Nervosa (Anorexia Nervosa) is a common disease in young women with a rate of 1%, with outstanding symptoms such as underweight, often feeling dissatisfied with body shape, suffering from obsession, fear of weight gain.

People with anorexia are always looking for ways to lose weight at all costs, including negative methods. They actively abstain from food regularly, loss of appetite, diet . actively induce vomiting or exercise very badly to consume energy.

Causes of mental anorexia originate from neurological and psychological factors, different from physiological anorexia caused by physical diseases. These people are very aware of body weight and beauty, which leads to disregard for eating.

Anorexia nervosa can seriously affect organs and physiological activities, especially the structure and function of the heart and cardiovascular system, muscle weakness and reduced immunity. Up to 6% of deaths occur, the highest in psychological disorders.

Ana Carolina Reston before and after anorexia

Experts found that anorexia is like addiction to heroin or alcoholism. When it is finished, it is still easy to relapse. Currently the disease is quite common in the world, especially among the models. In 2006, a famous case of this disease was permanently gone, that is Brazilian supermodel Ana Carolina Reston, 21 years old with a weight of only nearly 40kg while 1m73 high.

3. Orthorexia healthy eating disorder

Orthorexia also known as 'healthy eating disorder' . This is a term coined by Dr. Steven Bratman to describe a mental disorder in which the sufferer is always obsessed with the quality of the food that they load into the body, ie, eating in a healthy way. individual standards.

The obsession with food that people think is unhealthy can be formed in family habits, social trends, economic problems or even just hearing a negative news about a food, they will immediately remove it from the diet forever. Clear expression in this disease is that patients avoid or limit to the maximum fat or sugar, salt, coffee, alcohol, preservatives .

Because of abstinence so much, their diet becomes difficult and may lack nutrition, many cases lead to death. They are very strict with themselves about eating healthy food and feel extremely uncomfortable when they don't follow that 'eating law'. Currently, in the West, the number of people suffering from this disorder is quite large, however, it is still not really recognized by the scientific community.

4. Pica disease

Pica disease is derived from Latin "magpie" - evil birds are. This is a bird with unusual eating behavior, it eats almost everything it can eat. Similarly, Pica is a disorder in which the sufferer will have an appetite for things that are not normal food. They can eat delicious things like animal manure, clay, dirt, paint, sand, paper, coal .

Studies of this strange eating disease have found the main reason is that mineral deficiency causes cravings. Currently Pica is being recognized as a mental disorder.

This disease is often seen in young children and women, especially pregnant women and people with autism. You must have heard many elderly people tell about craving for cigarettes, sniffing and eating mud from earth walls during pregnancy, which is a symptom of Pica disease that occurs during pregnancy in women.

This is a quite dangerous disorder when patients eat non-food forms - there is little or no nutritional value at all. Sometimes, they also contain toxins that make people "enjoy" some complications such as infection, intestinal obstruction, lead poisoning, malnutrition . leading to death.