To begin with, infantile anorexia refers to a particular feeding disorder, which mostly develops between the 6th month of a child’s life and the 3rd year (Merwin, 2010). Its main characteristics include refusal to feed, refusal to consume sufficient quantities, inability of regulating fullness and hunger, more interest in surroundings than eating, distractibility, as well as growth deficiency. Notably, feeding disorders among infants, as well as toddlers have nowadays become more common as the assessment and diagnostic criteria are specialized. However, only few scholars have carried out longitudinal research studies to study specific disorders in details, including the investigations on the effectiveness and success of treatment strategies.
As an exemplar, infantile anorexia represents one of the eating childhood disorders that have not received sufficient attention from the scholars. Perhaps, in order to understand the intricacies of the disorder, it is imperative to get to know how it develops, manifests, as well as its treatment. In this way, someone is able to comprehend more details about the disorder, and possibly purpose to conduct a study that can aid in shedding more light on it and adding value to its current preventive and management strategies. Indeed, if eating disorders are prevented, controlled or treated properly, children will not be at risk of developing certain complications secondary to the deficiencies (Jacobovits, 2011).
Ideally, research indicates that when young children have some form of nutrition deficiency, they may end up having some serious long-term complications. In the recent past, several researchers have realized that if the serious complications in the health of a child secondary to nutriti...
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Each year millions of people in the United States develop serious and often fatal eating disorders. More than ninety percent of those are adolescent and young women. The consequences of eating disorders are often severe--one in ten end in death from either starvation, cardiac arrest, or suicide. Due to the recent awareness of this topic, much time and money has been attributed to eating disorders. Many measures have been taken to discover leading causes and eventual treatment for those suffering from anorexia. (http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource ...er.html#Causes of Eating Disorders) )
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According to Sheah Rarback, the growth rate in infants is rapid and the birth weight of an infant is often doubled by five months of age (Rarback, Sheah, 2011). The two main forms of nutrition during the first four months of infancy is either breastmilk or infant formula (Rarback, Sheah, 2011). Then at four months of age, solid foods can start to be introduced (Rarback, Sheah, 2011). Once toddlerhood is reached, a child’s growth rate begins to slow and the child begins to eat more solid foods than the child ate during infancy (Coila, Bridget, 2011).
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According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), “Feeding and eating disorders are characterized by a persistent disturbance of eating or eating related-behavior that results in the altered consumption of absorption of food and that significantly impairs physical health or psychosocial functioning.” (American Psychiatric Association, 2013)
Anorexia may not be noticed in early stages. The Anorexic usually chooses to wear layered and baggy clothes to hide the “ugly fat body” .An Anorexic may have ritualistic eating patterns such as cutting food into little tiny pieces and weighing themselves. These can be found in people who are on a healthy diet, but in Anorexics these behaviors are extremely exaggerated. Other warnings are deliberate self-starvation with weight loss, fear of gaining weight, refusal to eat, denial of hunger, constant exercising, sensitivity to cold, absent or irregular periods, loss of scalp perception of being fat when the person is really to this. Some other associated features are depressed mood, somatic sexual dysfunction, and ...
As most people know, hunger generates many health issues, including shrinking of the heart, liver and kidney failure, a weak immune system, and potentially death in extreme cases. Malnutrition also has detrimental effects on children, in particular, delaying brain development and stunting bone growth. However, what most people don’t realize is the detrimental effects hunger has on offspring. When a pregnant mother lacks certain nutrients and vitamins provided by a healthy diet, her child is the one who experiences the consequences the most. Thousands of people today endure heart disease and birth defects, as a result of the hunger of their mothers during their pregnancy.
Agriculture and food industries are central to experiencing excellent or deteriorating functional health. Household food insecurity is a barrier to maintaining good physiological and psychological health. Health concerns such as heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and food allergies are more likely to occur in food insecure households (Mikkonen & Raphael, 2010). Thus, a main detrimental impact of food insecurity can be on early childhood development. A poor diet consisting of mostly processed foods can lead to many physiological and psychological issues in children (Mikkonen & Raphael, 2010).
In the developing stages of a child, psychological factors play a huge role in th...
“Malnutrition remains a serious problem to child survival, growth, and development in underdeveloped countries” (Kluwer, 104). Malnutrition is defined as a “lack of proper nutrition, caused by not having enough to eat, not eating enough of the right things, or being unable to use the food that one does eat.” In many third world countries, children do not have access to the proper nutrients that are necessary for them to grow and develop properly. This is caused sometimes by natural disasters that the country cannot recover quickly enough to maintain a stable system and provide for the people. Another major cause is
Exposure to disordered feeding styles manifest physical and emotional effects. BN and BED mothers had children with higher weight-for-age. Although a general finding was that the children of mothers with eating disorder weighed less than controls and this was related to the amount of mealtime conflict.13 Subjects with BN had a birth weight below the 10th percentile significantly more often than controls, 30% vs 17%, respectively, as well as a birth length below the 10th percentile significantly more often than controls 17% vs 9%, respectively, and subjects with AN 17% vs 6%,
A child’s proper growth depends greatly on their nutrition and health. A healthy diet is essential to the developing child. Food should never be used to reward, punish, or bribe a child. Instead children should have three healthy meals with snacks in between. It is also important for children to have good self care behaviors (including bathing, washing hands, brushing teeth), and adequate sleep.