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An eating disorder is a psychological condition in which the patient not eats enough or repeatedly eats too much in a short period. The patient takes drastic measures to rid the body of calories consumed. This type habits fall on a continuum, from eating a healthy, balanced diet on one end, to serious eating disorders on the other end. Eating disorders create serious emotional and physical problem.

There are different types of eating disorders as:

- Anorexia nervosa,
- Bulimia nervosa,
- Binge eating disorder, and
- Eating disorders not otherwise specified

There is no a special cause of eating disorder. But some things may play a great role in eating disorder:
Culture. Mostly each person wants a good look and an ideal body. Looking their idle person they start eat more or less.
Families. If you have a mother or sister with anorexia, you are more likely to develop the disorder.
Life changes and stressful events. Traumatic events as rape or home violence may be the cause of eating disorder.
Biology. Genes, hormones, and chemicals of body and brain may be factors in developing anorexia.

Someone with eating disorder may look very thin and some, who are very thin, wants to look fat. She or he may use extreme measures to lose or grow weight. One who are fat want be thin by:

-Making her or him throw up
-Taking pills to urinate or have a bowel movement
-Not eating or eating very little
-Exercising a lot, even in bad weather or when hurt or tired
-Moving food around the plate instead of eating it
And other eats too much for find a fatness or good look.

The treatment of eating disorder:

There are no specifying treatments for eating disorder. But some medication and therapy is very useful for this as-
-Individual therapy
-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
-Interpersonal therapy
-Rational Emotive Therapy
-Psychoanalytic psychotherapy
- Family therapy
- Group therapy.

A medical doctor or psychiatrist may prescribe drugs, such as antidepressants, to treat specific complications of eating disorders.