health sectionhealth sectionYour pre-schooler screams in pain at the sound of a fire engine. Your toddler resists any hugs. Your grade schooler has severe difficulty with handwriting. These are all symptoms of a neurological condition called sensory processing disorder in which difficulty processing sensory information overwhelms a person's daily life.
Eating disorders are best described as extremes in a person's eating behavior. Bulimia is an eating disorder in which a person eats an excessive amount of food and then induces vomiting or exercises extensively to avoid gaining weight. Anorexia nervosa is characterized by an obsessive fear of weight gain that causes an individual to eat very little. Binge eating disorder is a term that covers periods of uncontrolled eating followed by dieting and fasting. Each of these disorders has a set of signs and symptoms that accompany it.
Eating disorders affect millions of women across the country. There are three established eating disorders: bulimia, anorexia and binge-eating. Bulimia involves binging and purging, but there are many other aspects to it. Anorexia is a disease in which the sufferer starves herself. With the binge-eating disorder, one has binges with food in excess.
