Food disorders in athletes: Distortion of body image, incidence, consequences and treatments in nervous anorexia and bulimia
Abstract
Due to this reason it was aimed to check in this work the incidence, the consequences and treatments for eating disorders, with approach to Nervous Anorexia and Bulimia. The body image is a factor which influences on the incidence of these disorders, because it determines the lean and athletic image that the athlete wants to show to people in general. The Food disorders such as Bulimia and Anorexia affect female athletes, especially in adolescence when they are starting a sporting life, on men these disorders appear, but with lower incidence. The consequences are physiological and metabolic disorders, a decrease of income, fractures, deficits of growth and development, amenorrhea, water loss, among others. The activities of nutritionist represent an important part of the treatment of eating disorders, with a multidisciplinary team with an integrated nutrition therapy, where the professionals work together to modify the behaviors related to food and weight. The nutritional therapy has two phases: the educational and experimental. In resume it must have a rigid planning on feeding of these athletes, since your entry in the sport. This initial monitoring allows a better control of the athlete, where we will develop a work of education and awareness food, acting directly on the prevention of the development of Food Disorders.
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