A new study found that young women who use diet pills and laxatives to control their weight are more likely to be diagnosed with eating disorders than their peers who do not use diet pills and laxatives.

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Eating disorder, usually called anorexia or bulimia, is a symptom of neurotic eating disorder, which was first discovered in the model group pursuing thinness and beauty.

People with bulimia overeat and then excrete undigested food by inducing vomiting or improper excretion (taking laxatives) to maintain their weight. Without inducing vomiting or stimulating excretion, people usually become obese. People with bulimia are often too afraid of obesity and should control their weight within the normal range. But they not only overeat, but also use laxatives and vomiting to lose weight. This repeated process of dieting and overeating completely destroys the balance of the human body. Repeated vomiting damages the esophagus and stomach, destroys the surface of teeth, and increases the psychological burden, for fear that others will discover their secrets and even commit suicide because of extreme despair.

Anorexia is the phenomenon of eating less or even not eating, aiming at slim figure, but it often leads to the failure of other organs of the body and affects life. Although anorexia has poor appetite in the early stage, in fact, patients still have normal appetite, but they just control their diet excessively in order to keep their weight low. In the second stage, the nervous function of the body changes, resulting in rejection of food, leading to an imbalance in the body's diet. I don't want to eat at all, and I have no desire to eat.

About one-third of anorexia patients are overweight before dieting. Generally, dieters will stop when they reach their ideal weight. But anorexia patients will stick to the normal bottom line of weight far below the standard weight for age, height and height. Their calorie intake mainly comes from low-calorie foods such as fruits, vegetables and salads.

Moderate dieting is very important. Once overdosed, it will develop into eating disorder and nervous system disease, which will cause important endocrine dysfunction damage to the body. Therefore, teenagers should prevent excessive weight loss and prevent eating disorders.

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In the process of losing weight for young women, it has become popular to use over-the-counter diet pills and laxatives as important ways. In particular, diet pills and laxatives introduced on WeChat or in some small circles regard special situations and isolated situations as high probability events, and publicize them to attract people to be fooled.

According to a study conducted by researchers from Chen Zengxi School of Health of Harvard University and Boston Children's Hospital, young women who have never been diagnosed with eating disorders and use over-the-counter diet pills and laxatives to control their weight are more likely to be diagnosed with eating disorders for the first time within one to three years than young women who have never used diet pills and laxatives.

Researchers know in advance that diet pills and laxatives for weight control are very harmful substances to the body. They want to know more about whether these diet pills and laxatives are the key behaviors that lead to eating disorders. (gateway behavior)

Studies have found that the abuse of diet pills and laxatives is similar to the abuse of cigarettes and alcohol: starting to use these substances is equivalent to opening a channel for young people to cause physical degradation problems, including serious substance abuse disorders, such as smokers and alcoholics. (Severe substance abuse disorder)

This study was published online in (1 1 February 2 1, 20 19) American Journal of Public Health. (American Journal of Public Health)

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Using over-the-counter diet pills or laxatives is not a healthy way to manage weight recommended by health care providers, because it will lead to serious health consequences, such as high blood pressure and liver and kidney damage. (Hypertension and liver and kidney damage)

The researchers analyzed the data of 1 to 20 16 and 10058 women and girls aged 14 to 36, all of whom participated in a large-scale health study. (American Growth Research Today)

They found that 65,438+0.8% participants without eating disorders who took diet pills in the previous year will be diagnosed with eating disorders for the first time in the next 1 to 3 years. Compared with participants who have never used diet pills, only about 1% people will be diagnosed as eating disorders in the same period; This means that the risk of eating disorders has doubled after taking diet pills.

They also found that 4.2% of these participants were diagnosed with eating disorders because they had taken laxatives as a way to control their weight. Compared with people who did not take laxatives, only 0.8% people were diagnosed as eating disorders. This means that compared with people who don't take laxatives, people who take laxatives as a weight loss measure have more than five times the risk of eating disorders.

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Therefore, the researchers called for official policies to restrict the use of diet pills and laxatives, including calling for banning the sale of diet pills to teenagers. (It is forbidden to sell diet pills to minors)

In the report, they think that using this product to control weight can be a switch for eating disorders. Through this switch, the normal regulation of the body's digestive function will be abnormal, thus promoting the dependence on this unhealthy and ineffective weight control method, which will lead to abuse. Disordered eating habits formed by regulating normal digestive function and cultivating dependence on unhealthy and ineffective coping methods. )

Researchers believe that this article is a serious risk warning for the abuse of diet pills and laxatives. Fortunately, Instagram has taken measures to prohibit teenagers from advertising over-the-counter weight-loss drugs and weight-loss detoxification tea (laxatives). It is time for drug retailers and policy makers to carefully consider the risks of these products and take practical measures to protect the health of young people.

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Preventing eating disorders is very important for the education and guidance of adolescents' self-awareness and psychological adjustment ability. The first is correct self-cognition, and what suits you is the best, and we should overcome unrealistic perfectionism.

Many patients will not adapt to the change of their body shape when they are faced with growing confusion, some family problems and social pressure in adolescence, and then they will have inferiority complex. One way to solve the inferiority complex is to achieve the perfect goal of your body unrealistically.

It is said that Shi, a beautiful woman in history, once suffered from this disease, just because she felt inferior because of the change of her body shape in adolescence. At that time, there was Shihe, and they were called "two beauties". Because Phoebe is beautiful, she often feels inferior. I am already a beautiful woman, and I still envy her. I am definitely a perfectionist. One disadvantage of perfectionism for girls is that it is easy to freeze, which naturally includes the temptation to lose weight and control weight for life.

Second, families and society should pay close attention to teenagers' use of diet pills and laxatives to control their weight. The use of diet pills and laxatives will lead to endocrine disorders and develop into eating disorders.

Thirdly, patients with mild eating disorders can receive individual cognitive psychotherapy, behavioral therapy and family therapy to improve their eating habits.

The fourth serious case needs hospitalization. In fact, hospitalization is also based on diet control and psychotherapy, but the difference is that hospitalization is carried out in a systematic, regular and constrained environment.