For the last 20 years, it has been believed that strong, healthy bodies are better and more beautiful than those that are excessively thin, but now, it seems, the ideal is returning: to be as skinny as possible. Videos on social networks with tips for extreme weight loss are getting millions of views. We cannot blame social networks exclusively for eating disorders, they have been around for a long time.
But now there are more of them, says Prim. Assist. Dr.
Karin Sernec, MD, who leads the Eating Disorders Unit at the Psychiatric Clinic in Ljubljana. ”Anorexia nervosa is stable. About one percent of the population.
Bulimia nervosa – numbers are increasing. They show a five to six percent increase.” In addition, two new ones have appeared: ortoreksia and bigoreksia. The first one is an obsession with healthy, biologically uncontaminated food, when the person subsequently excretes more and more food.
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