Pymic gymnastics eating disorders
Introduction
The social pressures and the constant bombardment made. However, many times the cult of the body can go hand in hand, causing eating disorders. There are several kinds of physical disorders, but we are going to focus on those that directly affect rhythmic gymnastics athletes
Developing
ORTOREXIA
When there is an obsession for eating healthy, we are facing an orthorexia case. Here, the person carries an exhaustive and increasingly strict control of the components of the food that will consume.
In general, this begins when the person limits their diet, for example avoiding red meat intake, eggs, sugars, dairy and fat.
Anorexy
In general, people who have anorexia are obsessed with their physique and all they are looking for is to look more thin. For this reason, they stop eating, they take remedies to inhibit appetite or laxatives to lose more weight than recommended.
Potomania
This is an obsession where, compulsively, the person wants to drink water in large quantities throughout the day. People who suffer from Poto Mania can consume more than four liters per day, and do so with the intention of filling their stomach and thus avoid eating, so it is also associated with eating disorders such as bulimia or anorexia.
Bulimia
Extreme voracity attacks, where the person eats a lot. After this and before a feeling of guilt, the affected is caused vomiting to not gain weight.
What cause eating disorders?
Eating disorders in rhythmic gymnastics athletes are usually caused by the pressure that requires being a great athlete with a pleasant somatotype to the general public.
This is derived in different psychosocial factors that are:
- Bad life habits
- They do not take care of correct food or make absurd diets which harm their health slowly but aggressive
- Influence of parents
Parents influence a lot, since it has been seen in many cases that parents want
Lack of social support
Athletes not feeling social support seek acceptance in any way, so they reach these practices that are not recommended
Sometimes it does not depend on the parents or the coach, the athletes have all the necessary help, but they give little importism to take care of themselves and this ends giving bad results in sports practice
conclusion
This would be more a psychological factor, due to some situation that the athlete is happening at home or in some educational institution, a sentimental, familiar problem etc. Many times the social circle of athletes guides them by a bad course which generates a disorder that influences not only competition, but also in daily life
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