Eating Disorders

Eating disorders are the root causes for many healthy disorders. As a teen, most of us don’t even care if we’re eating right, or begin to understand the implications of poor eating habits.

As we age, however, we do begin to notice the effects of improper exercise, eating disorders, and how they affect our health. Today, as the baby boomers begin their retirement years, health concerns and questions are on the rise.

These aging boomers are more concerned about their good health, their ability to keep their good health, and how their diet affects their health than any previous generations.

To understand the relationship between overeating and health disorders, you don’t have to be a doctor. You simply have to look around at a nation approaching an obesity epidemic to understand what happens when you over consume in general.

Eating Disorders – Sweets

One a smaller scale we wonder about the overeating of just certain kinds of foods? What happens when you overdo in the sweet department? There are all kinds of health issues related to over consumption of sugar.

Diabetes would be the number one health concern. But, diabetes isn’t the only ill effect from over consumption of sugar. Obesity, thyroid dysfunction, kidney malfunction, and intestinal problems can all be directly associated with too much sugar consumption.

Eating Disorders – Alcohol

What about too much alcohol? The spoiling effects of alcoholism are a continual struggle and medical expense to many companies and citizens in this country, and indeed the whole world.

Lost youth, liver problems, brain deterioration, the speeding of other age-related diseases are all side affects of too much alcohol consumption.

Eating Disorders – Little Food Consumption

Then, we can talk about the effects of too little food consumption. What happens when we don’t consume what we need to maintain our health? Gum diseases, heart disease, muscle deterioration, vision loss, and anorexia occur when we don’t get the necessary food our body needs.

Vitamins and Minerals

Even when we can’t consume enough actual food, we can supplement the vitamins and minerals our bodies need in order to avoid eating disorders. You have only to walk down the aisle at your local supermarket to discover that there has been a vitamin revolution. Every possible vitamin and mineral needed by the body is available in capsule, pill, tablet, or powder form.

Overeating

Once your body has reached the point of unhealthy functioning, or you have placed such a strain on your body from overeating that one of the related eating disorders has taken hold, it’s almost impossible to correct one problem without creating another.

Once you have become a diabetic, there are so many complications, that simply choosing to diet and exercise is no longer an option. The health concerns you now have far outweigh the easy solution of diet and exercise. Can you begin to see how important maintaining your health is to your quality of life?

How important it is to the quality of your spouses’ and children’s’ lives? Your choices directly affect situations with their lives. You should make every effort to keep your health and avoid eating disorders; don’t you owe it to your family, if not yourself?

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