The Harbinger: Are Boys Becoming the New Face of Anorexia? | Pro ...

Anorexia is widely mislabeled as a female eating disorder, when in actuality there are more ten year old boys with eating disorders than girls at that age.

By the age of ten, Eric Ostendorf counted calories, threw up the food he ate, kicked his knees under his chair in class for exercise and was doing chin-ups in the school bathroom.

Weighing at 95 pounds at the age of ten, he was fueled to lose weight and exercise after looking through his father?s fitness magazines. From there on Eric?s health was gradually declining.

With a daily habit of eating only protein, no fat, and heavy exercise, the brain and bodies of these young boys wear out. Their diet and exercise usually leads to heart problems and heart attacks. Their concentration of calorie counting and burning takes over their everyday lifestyle.

During preschool years, some kids may misinterpret healthy habits and the dangers of obesity, which usually leads them to take extremes. Therefore they end up with a limited diet and have their bodies facing over exhaustion from heavy exercise.

?[You get] muscles with fat and protein,? said Khurram Paracha, a Networking freshmen at Miami Lakes Educational Center. ?You have to gain weight with protein, [that way] you?ll look fit.?

Male athletics are targeted through dieting, especially in wrestling, where they go through fasting and fluid depletion.

Dieting has become more acceptable for males with new weight loss plans and advice by companies and corporations such as Men?s Health and Weight Watchers.

Both these companies glamorize losing weight and gaining muscles.

NEDA (National Eating Disorder Association) employees monitor web sites or advertisements that share beliefs of pro-anorexia, pro-bulimia, and thinspiration ? pictures and/or writing that promote thinness.

Anorexia amongst males is usually the result of wanting to lose weight and fat. Then they start counting calories, don?t eat anything without a label, start heavy exercise, and start to think that their diet and exercise is not enough. That leads to eating limits and the throwing up food.

According to University of Maryland Medical Center, people with the following characteristics tend to see a sooner death. Those who are young (under age), have bulimia anorexia, have had the disorder for more than six years, have been previously obese, and those who have psychological disorders

Adolescences and children with anorexia usually face low reproductive and growth hormones, along with higher stress hormones.

According to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders there are certain warning signs with people who have anorexia nervous show. Examples of such are:

? Deliberate self-starvation with weight loss
? Intense, persistent fear of gaining weight
? Refusal to eat or highly restrictive eating
? Compulsive exercise
? Abnormal weight loss
? Sensitivity to cold
? Hair loss

Even though anorexia means a loss of appetite, a person with anorexia is hungry, but do not eat because they fear they will gain weight and become ?fat?, even if they are underweight.

The worse said type of anorexia is called the Binge-Eating/Purging Type. Individuals with this type of anorexia feel they lose control while eating ? even if it is something small like a cookie or a normal ? and therefore vomit or exercise with the fear of gaining weight. 40% of people with binge eating are males.

Restricting Type of anorexia is when individuals severely restrict their calories and only consume a few hundred calories a day or just water.

?Depending on the severity of the eating disorder, the treatment may take the form of weekly or daily visits with professionals,? said Dr. Lucene Wisniewski, Clinical Director of Cleveland Center for Eating Disorders. ?With proper training, parents can learn to help manage the recovery of their child from an eating disorder just as they would learn to help administer physical therapy if their child broke a bone.?

Some people with eating disorders embrace the idea that there is no chance of recovery for them.

???eating disorders often co-occur with depression, which means that demoralization and hopelessness can blacken one?s beliefs about the chances of recovery,? said Michael Levine in a ?Questions and Answers? page on www.nationaleatingdisorders.org. ?However, the research literature, as well the clinical experiences of countless professionals (including dietitians), indicates that people can indeed recover from anorexia nervosa.?

Glassvisage, a writer for hubpages.com and an anorexic survivor, gave anorexic victims adivice. ?Just eat?speak with others? get the facts?don?t compare yourself to others? [and] don?t resent help.? Glassvisage wrote. ?With all of this said, I?m trying to do what I can to make sure there are no more doctor?s visits or emergency eating sessions.?

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