What is an Eating Disorder? What are the risk factors causing Eating Disorders?

People with eating disorders have bad eating habits that threaten their health. It occurs in both men and women, but is more common in women. It is a health problem that is usually seen in people with a high socioeconomic level.

Giving importance to thinness, fear of getting fat, and having plenty of food and drink at home prepare the ground for people to have an eating disorder.

Eating disorder can be defined as a set of psychological conditions that cause the development of unhealthy eating habits. It may start with an obsession with food, body weight, or body shape. In severe cases, very serious health problems occur.

Eating disorder manifests itself with various symptoms. The most common of these symptoms are;

• The person suddenly eats excessively or excessively restricts eating,
• Postprandial vomiting,
• Heavy exercise after meals, can be listed as

3 different factors can lead to eating disorder as individual risk factors, familial risk factors and socio-cultural risk factors. Early maturation, weight gain anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression are individual risk factors for eating disorder. The presence of obese individuals in the family, physical and sexual abuse, overprotective or dominant parents are familial factors that cause eating disorders. The society's perception of beauty, the thought of being weak in order to be loved by the society, and the media are among the sociocultural effects that cause eating disorder.