Do You Have An Eating Disorder?

It is normal to want to look good. There is nothing wrong with wanting to be comforted when youre anxious or depressed. But if youre nervous when its meal time because youre afraid youll gain weight, or youre terrified of getting fat; and you throw up food after eating; if these attitudes describes you, youre not alone. The fact is, millions of youth-most of them girls have an Eating Disorder.

Each of these Eating Disorders, Anorexia, Bulimia, and Binge eating has distinct symptoms but all of them involve an abnormal attitude toward food.

ANOREXIA EATING DISORDER:

This Eating Disorder describes a girl no matter how slim she may be, sees an obese person whenever she looks in the mirror. To lose weight, she will resort to extreme measures. Weight loss is a common symptom, hair loss; dry skin, fatigue and loss of bone density are other symptoms. Menstrual periods can become irregular or even cease for several consecutive months. These symptoms may sound harmless but make no mistakes Anorexia eating disorder is life threatening. One study shows that up to 10 percent of sufferers of this Eating Disorder die. Usually as a result of organ failure or other problems related to improper nutrition.

BULIMIA EATING DISORDER:

The sufferer of bulimia eating disorder does not avoid food rather binges, consuming as many as 15,000 calories in just two hours, then purges what has been eaten, usually by inducing vomit or by taking laxatives or diuretics. Bingeing is usually carried out in secret. After the binge, however, guilt sets in.

Despite any seeming benefit, purging is dangerous. Laxative misuse weakens the intestinal lining and can lead to inflammation or infection. Frequent vomiting can result in dehydration, tooth decay, damage to the esophagus, and even heart failure. BINGE EATING DISORDER:

Like the bulimic, a sufferer of the eating disorder will consume large amount of food .The difference is that there is no purging. As a result, the binge Eating Disorder sufferer may be overweight. Some will however, starve themselves after a binge or engage in rigorous exercise. Sometimes when weight is maintained in this way, family and friends remain oblivious to the bingers plight.

Even without purging, bingeing Eating Disorder is dangerous. It can lead to diabetics, high blood pressure, heart disease and a number of other maladies. It can also take a heavy emotional toll.

Note that most people who want to lose weight or get into shape do not have an eating Disorder. Still after considering the above, you might wonder if you are heading in that direction; ask yourself;

Am I ashamed or embarrassed about my habits or rituals related to food?

Do I hide my eating habits from others?

Has food become the biggest part of my life?

Do I weigh myself more than once a day?

Am I willing to take risk to lose weight?

Have I experimented with self induced vomiting, laxatives or diuretics

Have my eating habits affected my social life for example, do I prefer to be alone rather than with others so I can binge or purge in secret?

If your answers to these questions indicate that you have an eating disorder, ask yourself:

Am I really happy living this way?

What can I do about the situation?

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Here Comes Nebby Government Again

Call me crazy, but I dont worry that much about global warming and how us pitiful humans are supposedly making the Earth heat up. Maybe its just knowing that over the millennia since the Earth was born it has gone through massive warming and cooling cycles and a myriad of other devastating events. And all long before us evil capitalistic humans arrived on the scene.

Asteroid collisions spewing more dust into the atmosphere than can be imagined, massive volcanic eruptions belching quantities of sulfur oxides that cannot be comprehended, fluctuations in sun spots and solar temperatures, dinosaurs as big as buildings depositing trillions of tons of poop directly into rivers without waste water treatment plants, and so on all came before evil humans and our oil burning beasts. Lush jungles and massive glaciers all came and went over that time all without human interference.

Make no mistake. Humans can do great harm to ourselves by the actions we take and the junk we dump into our surroundings. But we do also tend to scare easily, freak out and go overboard causing harm as well.

For example, all it took to get DDT banned was a poorly written piece of fear mongering propaganda by Rachel Carson called Silent Spring in which she lamented the lack of birds singing because their eggs had been made weak and their cute little baby birds died all because of DDT. Even despite being completely rebutted it is still to this day on the reading lists at many colleges.

After Carsons book millions died from mosquito born illnesses around the world that would have easily been prevented had the ban on DDT not followed. Once the camels nose was under the tent did anyone think it would be long before the whole camel was inside?

And how can we forget the numerous times we have been told that we were going to run out of oil in so many years only to completely blow by those dates? Today we continue to discover vast reserves of new oil.

Then years ago we had to put catalytic converters on our cars to convert pollutants such as Carbon Monoxide, oxides of Nitrogen and unburnt hydrocarbons into less harmful things like O2, N2, CO2 and H2O. It was a glorious day hailed by environmentalists as a huge victory. And while it certainly was a good thing that emissions which caused potential problems were reduced into common substances the fact that it was done by the federal government was really the goal and the ultimate victory so-called environmentalists celebrated.

Im not saying that I disagree with the result. But I do disagree with the process of citizens turning to government to make it so. All the people had to do was refuse to buy such polluting vehicles from manufacturers. Believe me as a greedy capitalist myself, someone would have listened and produced a car demanded by the people. But thats not how we chose to act. Now it was not just the camels nose that was under the tent, but its entire head.

Sadly, since then the entire camel has not just come inside the tent but it has also been knocking over tables and pots and lamps ever since generally causing a huge mess.

If you doubt it take note. Now the Supreme Court is being asked to weigh in on the premise that even some of those products created by catalytic converters to be less dangerous are now in need of regulation according to 12 states and some dozen or so environmental groups. The government is being asked to regulate CO2 which is more commonly known as plant food.

Just wait until these folks start looking into water vapor! Because it is a stronger greenhouse gas than CO2 could ever hope to be and, as previously noted, it is also a byproduct of catalytic converters.

On top of that we have areas full of this dangerous and deadly pollutant euphemistically called lakes, rivers, seas and oceans just to name a few. Obviously emissions (i.e. natural evaporation) from these dangerous reservoirs of pollution will also have to be regulated.

Quick! Someone get God on line one and tell him he has to file a permit and put a control device over those dangerous pollution sources!

Ok, so CO2 from tail pipes is a pollutant? Then the solution is simple! Rip the catalytic converters off cars. That will reduce CO2 emissions dramatically. Sure well be back to having large amounts of CO instead, but at least disaster will be averted!

But thats not the goal here. The goal is incremental control by government over the lives of people. First regulate the pollutants from combustion then mandate catalytic converters and then regulate the emissions the catalytic converts cause. Eventually we will be buried under so many regulations well need to fill out a request in triplicate and wait six months for approval from a government bureaucrat just to fart. After all, if cow flatulence causes global warming dont you know soon us evil humans will need to watch our farts as well?

Now however for a serious question. If we begin to regulate and limit CO2 from tailpipe emissions how long until environmentalists sue on the behalf of trees and other plants that we as humans are starving them and denying them their basic right to food? What about the rights of plants? Dont laugh. You might be surprised at how insane some people are.

J.J. Jackson is the owner and Lead Editor of American Conservative Politics - The Land of the Free and American Conservative Daily. He is also the owner of The Right Things - Conservative T-shirts & Gifts

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