What are the causes of eating disorders and obesity in children and adults?

There are various contributory causes of eating disorders and often several of these may act in combination. • The ability to distinguish between hunger, satisfaction and other feelings is learned when one is very young. More .

Faulty upbringing can interfere with this. The effect is often not noticed until later in life. More.

• Eating disorders often arise when a person tries to reduce to an abnormally low weight. The unnatural slim ideal may be therefore a contributory cause of eating disorders. More.

• Many people with eating disorders are not aware of their physical feelings of hunger and satisfaction. Thus, they lack a natural control of their eating. Such people will easier be pulled into eating disorders, where they use eating to conceal feelings and escape from constructive problem solutions.

More. • Both overeating and fasting can stimulate the reward centre in the brain. Eating disorders therefore function in the same way as alcoholism and drug addiction.

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