Is it true that if you have anorexia you bloat?!


Question:

Is it true that if you have anorexia you bloat?

This is my question because we see pictures of girls today (i.e.- nicole riche, mary-kate(ashley?) ) that are super skinny and are accused with having anorexia....so WHY. i DO NOT understand why this is. anorexia is supposed to equal bone skinny, yet i also see kids in africa who are starved and are bloated!

so would they also be considered anorexic?

PLEASE! help me understand! is there a difference? they both aren't eating? why does one bloat and the others don't???


Answers:

It's because there are 2 different conditions. Anorexia is the abstaining from all food.

Children from Africa are suffering from a condition called Kwashiorkor, which is a disease that is characterized by decreased protien metabolism due to inadequate protien intake. This disease usually hits children when they are weaned off of their mother's breast milk before they are old enough to start eating meat. So they are sufficing off of pure carbohydrates.

So what ends up happening is the body begins to take protien out of the visceral (body organ) compartment for general metabolic purposes. What ends up happening is organ most directly affecte is the liver, which begins to fill with fat and ends up swelling to cause the abdomen to swell.

Okay, so basic sum up to your questions. Anorexics take protien out of the muscles while kids who have kwashiorkor take protien out of the organ area. So while they both aren't eating, they both have two different disease manifestations.




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