A healthy lifestyle is an important part of human nature. A literate and wholesome diet, active pastime and healthy habits are all recommended to be studied and put into practice.
So, in the last 5 years, the level of information about healthy lifestyles has gained enormous popularity. If before you could only learn information from textbooks or listen to the advice of your neighbor, now the Internet is overflowing with various articles and blogs devoted to this topic.
It would seem that what is wrong with the fact that the media promotes a healthy lifestyle? At first glance – nothing. But there is the other side of the coin. The yellow press, “non-doctors” and housewives began to introduce a lot of diets: drinking, favorite, diet from Malysheva and others. People, not thinking about losing weight before, began to try them on themselves, after which the number of patients with chronic diseases increased in the country.
The promotion of a healthy lifestyle began to turn into the promotion of disease.
By 2018, the situation was as follows:
- Nearly 50% of people with eating disorders suffer from some form of depression.
- Only 1 in 10 people with an eating disorder receive skilled help and treatment for their addiction.
- The mortality rate of anorexia and bulimia patients ranks first compared to all other psychological illnesses.
- 91% of the women interviewed for the study had tried to control their weight one way or another through dieting and dietary restrictions.
- Twenty-two percent of the women had been on a diet frequently (more than five times) or almost always.
- Anorexia is the third most common chronic illness among adolescents.
- 95% of respondents say they developed bulimia and anorexia between the ages of 12 and 25.
- 25% of girls ages 16 to 22 use overeating and further purging (bulimia) as a way to control their weight.
- The mortality rate associated with anorexia nervosa is 12 times higher than the mortality rate associated with all other causes of death in girls ages 15 to 24.
- More than half of adolescent girls and nearly one-third of adolescent boys used unhealthy weight loss methods, such as taking laxatives and diuretics, fasting, skipping meals, inducing vomiting, etc.
- 95% of all diets and dietary restrictions fail because the weight came back after they ended.
- 35% of diets that started out as “normal” turn into pathological dietary restriction, and 20-25% of them lead to food addiction.
- About 50% of all bulimia and anorexia sufferers are models.
