Extending manifestations of eating disorders.

Is rising disorder in which patients have trouble eating. This is true of the vigorexia, sadorexia or diabulimia, among others.


The eating disorders (ED) is a health problem that has a huge impact on our society. The important changes across social, economic and cultural rights are directly related to the changes in eating habits. And that beauty, physical attractiveness and body are rising values in the society of the twenty-first century.

The problem with these disorders is multifactorial and so varied that demands attention and action, including clinical features, family members, but also cultural, social and educational. According to notes of the Eating Disorders Institute (ITA) are increasingly extending the various manifestations of these disorders, which implies a greater diversity for their treatment.

The specific diagnostic criteria of mental disorders (DSM-IV-TR) identifies three types of eating disorders: anorexia nervosa (refusal to maintain body weight equal to or above the minimum value), bulimia nervosa (eating food in a short space of time in excess of what most people ingerirían in a similar time in short, a feeling of loss of control over eating) and eating disorder not otherwise specified (those disorders that do not meet the criteria of the two previous categories).

The same classification also describes various disorders linked to the TCA: the disruption of pica (ingestion of persistent non-nutritive substances), the disorder of rumination (repeated regurgitation and new chewing food), and disruption of dietary intake of children or childhood (difficulty persistent inability to eat adequately with significant weight gain or significant weight loss).

New manifestations of TCA
The most recognizable of TCA are anorexia and bulimia nervosa with binge andalusia disorder. As of today appear more strongly as the new manifestations vigorexia, orthorexia, sadorexia, the syndrome of the dining and night diabulimia. These specific disorders are less known, yet increasingly common.

The vigorexia is a disorder that affects between 1 and 10% of frequent users of gyms. It is characterized by the obsessive concern for the physical and distortion of body schema affects mostly men between 15 and 35 years but also to women. This implies an addiction to physical activity (especially in the gym), along with permanent and obsessive thoughts about how to improve the appearance (or concern about weak little muscle). Often associated with the consumption of substances for muscle development and control excessive diet, unbalanced where the amount of protein and carbohydrate consumed is excessive.

Another manifestation of ACTs is called orthorexia, which literally means "correct appetite", ie, the obsession with eating healthy. Manifested through the excessive preoccupation with the quality of food while feeling guilty and corrupt when they are not met its own dietary beliefs. In this way, the subjects, mostly young women, develop their own food and, unlike anorexia or bulimia nervosa, which focuses on the quantity of food, ortoréxicos become obsessed with the quality of it reaching socially isolated because to the way you eat. In short, everyday life is affected, as what began as a dietary habit, resulting in almost a "religion" where the slightest transgression, is tantamount to sin.

Together with the two disorders are above the sadorexia (sadomasochism and anorexia) is considered a second generation of evolution, or ACTs traditional. Behavior is characterized by an anorexic, bulimic or ortoréxico where no traditional symptoms leading to the use of unconventional techniques such as thinning severe masochism to achieve extreme thinness. In these cases the physical abuse and external behavior can cause rapid weight loss and permanent. These actions do not arouse suspicion in friends and family but causing social isolation and family.

Other disorders diagnosed recently but no less important are: the syndrome of the dining room at night, the diabulimia phobics and certain disorders that affect the eating behavior.

We like syndrome that night dining that includes both an eating disorder as a disorder of sleep. It affects between 1 and 2% of the population and focuses on the excessive intake of food during the night could reach between 3 and repeat 5 times. People who suffer from eating semidormidos they are not fully aware or remember what they do.

For its part, diabulimia is a disorder in which people who have type 1 diabetes skip their insulin injections to lose weight. Often, these individuals are diagnosed with an eating disorder like anorexia or bulimia nervosa rather than diabetes. Frequently appears in adolescence and is more common in women than in men.

Among the disorders we find phobics avoid certain behaviors such as eating in public, swallow food and selection, development avoidant behavior due to the unpleasant sensations which causes the presence of certain foods, fear of choking, etc..