O CNN Vital Signs gets a new day and time in the schedule of the CNN Brazil. From now on, the program presented by cardiologist Roberto Kalil will air on Sundays at 7:45 pm, reinforcing the diversified content with the brand CNN Soft.
This Sunday’s episode (13) will deepen the discussion about eating disorders. At a time when the number of views and likes drive people’s popularity on social media, the obsession with the perfect image can get in the way of treating disorders that are no longer considered rare, such as bulimia, anorexia nervosa and binge eating. .
According to doctor Claudia Cozer Kalil, “eating disorders are pathologies classified as psychiatric diseases in which the person has a very bad and suffered relationship with food”. She is coordinator of the Department of Eating Disorders of the Brazilian Association for the Study of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome (Abeso).
According to physician Táki Cordás, coordinator of the Eating Disorders Program (Ambulim), at the Psychiatry Institute of the University of São Paulo (USP), the three main disorders are bulimia, anorexia nervosa and binge eating.
According to the specialist, all the disorders added together already exceed the incidence of pathologies such as depression, for example. Today, anorexia nervosa, more prevalent in women, affects 1% of the population; bulimia, also with a higher incidence in females, affects 2.5%. Binge eating affects men and women equally at a rate of 3.5% of Brazilians.
“Restricting food that is too strict triggers any of these [transtornos]. Being thin is synonymous with being successful, with being beautiful, so we have a society that massacres in search of an ideal model of beauty, when the ideal does not exist”, says Cordás (see the interview in the video above).
The episode features the participation of journalist and writer Daiana Garbin, who tells how the beauty standards established by society led to the development of eating disorders. “A magazine from my teenage years said that the ideal jeans were a size 34, 36 or, at most, a 38. The first jeans that fit me when I was 12 years old was a 42″, she says.
“So, I realized there, in my teenage mind at the time, that my body was very wrong and that I needed to lose weight anyway so that the boys liked me, so that I would be accepted by my schoolmates”, adds the girl. journalist.
Diana overcame the riots and today has a website and YouTube channel that help people facing the same issues.
For Sophie Deram, nutritionist and coordinator of the Genetics Project of the Eating Disorders Program at USP, social networks have had significant impacts on discomfort with eating and body dissatisfaction.
“Social networks work with images. So people’s body dissatisfaction greatly increases, not only [das] women, and we see that this can be a trigger to look for a diet and to model the body as it is being sold”, says the nutritionist.
The doctor Cláudia Cozer Kalil warns that family participation is essential for the recognition of eating disorders. “For the family it is very important to recognize these individuals, so you observe a gradual weight loss, a very big restriction when eating, a trip to the bathroom whenever you are having a meal”, says the endocrinologist.
Source: CNN Brasil
