Anorexia in vegetarian nutrition.

We will now discuss one of the most complex diseases that exist in the field of nutrition. Anorexia, as an extreme contrast to obesity, can be just as harmful and dangerous. Only in countries such as Spain, anorexia affects more than half a million people a year and internationally causes the death of 5 out of every 1000 people who suffer from it.

Anorexia can often be a more difficult disorder to detect than obesity. It happens that usually people who suffer from it, reach this state voluntarily, even manage to see themselves as if they had a healthy appearance or with some overweight.

In the present guide we will touch this subject analyzing its main characteristics, as well as the relationship that it could have with people who practice a vegetarian diet or who are about to practice it.

The disorder of anorexia: Anorexia is an eating disorder that is based on strong alterations in the psychological state of the person who has it. Many patients report having lost their appetite, this loss of appetite is not necessarily related to digestive problems, but has its origin in the individual's own psyche that comes to self-sabotage in the perception of the amounts of food eaten, the smells and tastes of these.

The risks of this disease are associated with the appearance of fatal diseases such as cachexia, hypothyroidism, cancer, or severe psychological disorders.

The confrontations to anorexia are carried out from different health fields such as nutrition and psychology. It is necessary a coordinated action that allows working on the psychological state of the patient and the reconstruction of the organism of this one by means of the modification of its conducts and nutritional habits.

Regarding nutrition, we will emphasize the subject that concerns us, the vegetarian diet.

Anorexia and vegetarian diet: The vegetarian diet is usually seen as an effective diet for weight loss, low in calories and healthy. While all this is true, this idea should not mislead us into believing that an anorexic person cannot follow a vegetarian lifestyle.

In principle we must begin by clarifying that anyone suffering from anorexia should submit to the hands of a specialist, it is not a matter of eating one food or another, but that our eating plans are rigorously planned and controlled by trained personnel in the care of these problems.

If the patient who has anorexia has been maintaining a vegetarian style for a certain time by his own will, it is not correct to induce him to abandon this type of food. If he/she is already a person who has problems with the foods to which he/she is adapted, suddenly changing the type of food he/she eats m