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We all must know this fact that eating disorders are severe medical situation and it can affect someone mentally as well as physically. Well besides these facts people having eating disorder often try to hide it and the fact that there is something wrong with them so this makes diagnosing process for eating disorders even more difficult to become aware of the warning symptoms and signs that generally come with eating disorders for family persons, friends and other people around the patient or I would say the person having eating disorder.

In USA, around 10 million persons having some kind of eating disorder and most of them go through with any treatment, it is because eating disorder warning signs and symptoms go unrecognized or their loved ones people around them don’t even know that and the person having eating disorder is unable to admit that he is having some eating disorder problem.

Knowing & Understanding of Eating Disorders Symptoms
For those people who do not understand eating disorder it always hard for them to realize and understand why these disorders conditions are such big deal. Well reality is that eating disorders can bring intense variations in your eating habits and your behaviors and these changes can become very dangerous sooner or later.

Hunger, binge eating, obsessively including calories and tossing up after meals these all are the symptoms and signs that tells us that eating disorder may be present. I think it’s more important for people to focus on why eating disorder happen what are the causes behind them rather to know what eating disorder is. Studies shows that they are much complex than normal routine food issues or may be the temporary habits which usually come and go.

Eating disorders stalk from strong thoughts of self-doubt and uncertainty that in the end results into people to build up indistinct behaviors regarding their body image, weight and foodstuff in common. The no constructive feelings that begin to appear ultimately leading to destructive manners in an effort to manage aspects of their lives that they feel have gone far away from them.

Three Basic Eating Disorders Types:

1. Anorexia, it’s a type where people feel fear of becoming fat it involves starvation.
2. Bulimia, it’s a type in which people start consuming large amount of calories in quick sessions of time called “bingeing” and other conditions is purging, people with purging disorder do not consume large amount of food before they purge.
3. Binge Eating Disorder, it’s a type in which people start extreme overeating.

Eating Disorder Signs & Symptoms You Must Learn to Spot:
If someone is around you so rottenly and you know them completely who they are, their habits, their general routine what they do normally, present around you. You will be able to notice the presence of an eating disorder by looking these signs and symptoms in them.   

• Seeing rest/wash room immediately after having a meal
• Preoccupied with body or image weight
• Hiding foodstuff from others
• Avoiding public activities where food is served
• Consistently dieting, even though if he/she is thin
• Fanatically counting calories
• Having diet laxatives or medications
• Intense exercising (one or more hours daily or several times in a week)
• Mysterious and/or unexpected weight loss or weight increase