What is Body Dysmorphic Disorder?

Man is a creature who is never satisfied. Humans will always constantly trying to fulfill their ambition. However, if the ambition was taken by the wrong way, of course, it will only cause harm to themselves. In addition to material wealth, physical condition is one that is often the object of human discontent. But unfortunately, not all of us understand how to treat our bodies well. We often feel dissatisfied with the physical condition of our own. We may not be satisfied with the condition of our physical form, but the health factors should still be a priority. The best way is to change it in a natural way, not in ways that harm our bodies.

Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is a disorder in which the sufferer feels obsessed with their physical condition, they have a very high anxiety and dissatisfaction on their physical form. People with body dysmorphic disorder pay attention to the physical appearance in detail. They will make a mandatory in order that their physical form in accordance with what is in their imagination. Their dissatisfaction is in the texture and color of skin, texture and color of hair, and nose. In men who suffer from BDD, the majority of them will put their attention on the muscles they have. As a result of the anxiety and dissatisfaction, the body dysmorphic disorder sufferers can experience extreme depression, and quite a lot of sufferers who reached the stage of attempt suicide.

The majority of body dysmorphic disorder sufferers could take 3 to 8 hours a day to think about all of physical aspects on their body that is not perfect. In the most cases of BDD patients, many who spend their time in front of the mirror, although there are also some people who just avoid mirrors because of fear see the imperfections on their bodies. Some of the patients may also have a habit of wearing makeup very thick, and not seldom of those who like to isolate themselves from social life. Therefore, a lot of people with body dysmorphic disorder who have chaos in the aspect of career, academic, and other social aspects. There is one more thing that makes me very cringe, because some of them have pretty extreme measures, they peeled their own skin until it bled. it's awful, isn't it?

Therefore, many of BDD sufferers who take shortcuts to fulfill their desires. The actions they often do is to do a lot of cosmetic surgery such as plastic surgery; dental surgery, and other surgery to repair the body parts they think are not perfect. For men who suffer from body dysmorphic disorder, usually they will also suffer from muscle dysmorphia, that is an obsession with muscular body shape. And the shortcuts are often taken is to consume excessive supplements, and also using steroids.

A famous figure with body dysmorphic disorder is the world pop legend who died in the year 2009, that is Michael Jackson. Michael is well known with his performances were always eccentric. He was always surprised the world by varying the shape of his face and the color of his skin. That's what makes him a BDD sufferer. Even some say that the cause his death, one factor is due to these habit.

However, we must remain grateful to our physical condition. However, with the gratitude, then it doesn't mean we leave it alone. All we have to do is take care of it properly, by maintaining and making it healthier. If any part of the body that are not healthy, we can't leave it alone, so we need to fix it naturally.

Keep healthy everyone. :)

Don't Let Your Body Dehydrate!

Dehydration is a disorder in which you are experiencing chronic water deficit, which occurs because the water that you spend more than the water you drink. A baby, has a moisture content 80% of his body weight. While for us adults, ideally containing 60% to 75% water. So for example, if your body weight is 70 kg, then the weight of water content you should have is 42 kg to 52.5 kg. Therefore, don't be surprised if the water becomes a symbol of life, because the majority of the content of our own body is water. Many of us may not realize when we are dehydrated. Or maybe of you actually understand when you're dehydrated, but you tend to leave it and delay the time to drink water.

Level of dehydration

In men, lack of body fluids by 1.5%, usually it will already make your body provide a signal. Whereas in women, it is even less, which is 1.3%. Thirst is the first signal given by the body in order that you immediately give the water intake on your body. And when we've started to feel sleepy and it becomes difficult to concentrate, it means that we are already dehydrated as much as 2%.

You start to enter the phase of dehydration when the body loses fluid as much as 4-5%. This phase is referred to as mild dehydration. People who experience mild dehydration, it will usually have a headache. If at the time of exercise you suddenly got a headache, then you are probably experiencing mild dehydration. Immediately stop your workout activity, and then immediately consumed the water, before the case is more severe.

Moderate dehydration is happening when you lose body fluids 5-10%. And it's better not let you enter to this phase. Moreover to enter the level of severe dehydration, that is more than 10% dehydration. When you are dehydrated your body as much as 12%, then your mouth will feel dry and make it difficult to chew. Dehydration will give a death threat when you have lost 15-25% of body fluids. And if in this condition, you still don't get fluid intake, it stands to reason that the death will pick up after 1 week.

Common symptoms of dehydration

Indeed, dehydration have certain levels in the world of medicine, but even if it was only a mild level, we still can not be experienced it. If you feel thirsty then just drink water. Thirst is a beginning signal that we lack body fluids, while based on the level of dehydration, a common symptom experienced by patients, are as follows:

- Mild dehydration: drowsiness, dry mouth, dry throat, dry skin, and headaches.

- Moderate dehydration: dizziness, increased pulse rate, decreased blood pressure, weakness, urine volume slightly, the yellow color of urine is thicker.

- Severe dehydration: muscle cramps, swollen tongue, blood circulation deteriorates, physically very weak, decreased kidney function, and fainting.

Dehydration in cold temperatures.

By the time you exercise for an hour, then you will spend a lot of sweat. Or, when the air is very hot and we were in the heat of the sun, of course we will also issue a lot of sweat. In that two conditions, it is clear that we have spent a lot of fluids. And in fact, not only when we are sweating, the body will secrete body fluids. What about swimming? Is not a sport does not make us look expend a lot of sweat? but in fact swimming is a cardio activity just like running, so after swimming for 1 hour you will feel very thirsty and hungry.

One more example is when you are in air-conditioned for hours, then you are out of the room, and suddenly you feel thirsty. Well actually, when you are in the air-conditioned room, you've lose a lot of body fluids, even if you just silent and sit down. Why? Due to humidify the air we breathe, the body will use a lot of body fluids. Similarly, when your place are experiencing the rainy season or winter. Of course the air will be very cold, and in this condition, many people will be vulnerable to dehydration, because they will feel not sweating and rarely experienced thirst, so they became rare for a drink of water. When the air temperature is cold we become sleepy easy, isn't it? Even though we are after waking from long sleep, but we still feel sleepy, aren't we? You must remember, sleepiness is one symptom of dehydration.

Therefore, don't underestimate your sense of thirst. Because if you ignore it, it could be the outset of your dehydrated. If you feel a headache, I suggest don't rush to take a medicine, but try to consume enough water. Because I see, the most of migraine sufferers are people who consume less water. So, don't let your body dehydrate!

Athletica Nervosa - A Disorder of Excessive Exercise

Exercising is indeed important, even is something that must be done if you want a healthy body. However, what if we do the exercise excessively? Surely all that excessive is not good, isn't it? Athletica Nervosa is an obsession of exercise excessively. The reason is the obsession of someone who wants the ideal body shape. This will not only bring a person experiences an eating disorders (Anorexia Nervosa is an example), but can also make a person obsessive about something, like exercise excessively. In other words, the person will become addicted to the physical exercise.

The patients of athletica nervosa have the notion that exercise is an obligation in life. They have such thoughts, as a desire to get the ideal body weight, and even tend to be skinny. Not much different from Anorexia Nervosa, Athletica Nervosa patients will also tend to impose themselves. This disorder also has a majority of patients were female and aged between 12-19 years. Because they are addicted, so they will always feel restless when skipping the time to exercise. They often exercising beyond what the body needs. Even when they are sick or injured, they still do a heavy exercise.

There is some strange habits that often do by the sufferer. They usually have a high obsession in diet, so when they skipped the exercise time , they will punish themselves by pausing their eat activities. Athletica Nervosa sufferers also often steal the opportunity to exercise, even when they're working in the office. Try watching your friends at the office, is there anyone who secretly hiding to exercise? :)

The impact of this disorder is the sufferer will experience easy to lose energy, menstrual irregularity (for women), bone weakness and increased risk of osteoporosis because too often impose the body gestures. Athletica Nervosa also have a psychological impact on the social life of the people, because they will tend to become anti-social, they would prefer to spend their spare time with exercise rather than social activities.

Of course this would be very unfortunate, that exercise should be a fun and healthy activity, instead of giving a lot of losses. If you want to have a healthy body and a stress-free, of course we have to exercise regularly and in accordance with the dose. Remember all that excessive is not good. 

Keep sporty everyone!!

Anorexia Nervosa - A Phobia of Food

Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder where the patient is called anorexic would be willing to not eat all day. Those who become anorexic are marked by refusal to eat as a strong incentive to be thin and a great fear of weight gain. And this led to the phobia of food, then they will narrow down to eat until the an extreme stage, even not eating for some days. In addition anti to food, an anorexic who is obsessed with being thin is even also doing an excessive physical exercise. Habit withstand hunger makes people with anorexia nervosa are accustomed to lose his appetite. Until the end, even though they lack food intake, but they are usually able to maintain body strength and running their daily activities like other normal people.

Many studies have found that 95% of people with anorexia nervosa is female. The majority of patients with anorexia nervosa are teen girls from middle-top class socioeconomic. While models and ballet dancers are an example of a profession that demands thinness body, it also triggers a woman to become an anorexic. In some countries, many opinions are growing that women are skinny and tall is a symbol of beauty, of course this is one of the theories in the world of modeling and entertainment world. And plus the wrong perception about diet, there are still many people who think that the diet is to eat less, of course it was very wrong. We must know that 10% of people with anorexia nervosa have experienced death.

Some of the physical effects that occur in patients with anorexia nervosa are:

• Drastic weight loss. In the first stage, usually the patient will lose 20% - 40% of their weight, and still will decline more extreme at a later stage. Of course I have explain that the drastic weight loss will have a negative impact on the health of the body.
• Anorexic will experience dryness of skin and loss of skin elasticity.
• Metabolic disorders, of course, if we lack nutrition, this will make the process of metabolism becomes chaotic.
• The tongue will be dirty and the patient will experience a feeling of bitterness in the mouth.
• For women, it will also cause disruption of the reproductive system, in which the patient will experience menstrual irregularities or called amenorrhoea, the cause is a lack of calories.
• Other physical effects that will be experienced is the pulse is going slowly, the decreases of blood pressure, the hair becomes dry, nails become brittle, decreases the resistance to cold  (due to shortage of fat).

The patients with anorexia nervosa will also receive psychological harm such as short-tempered and irritable, feeling worthless, it is easy to feel guilty, not confidence, tend to lie to cover up their eating behavior, and loss of social interest to interact with other people. Typically an anorexic has strange habits such as frequent hand washing repeatedly, hiding their food, cutting the foods into small pieces, and they often throw away the foods while they were eating.

Of course today, you should begin to understand that being an anorexic is not good. If you are still thinking to be thin by means of instant, then it means you will only damage your own body. Only a healthy diet with regular exercise is the best way to get a healthy body in a natural way. If you are parents who have teenagers, especially girls, watch her ​​diet, because they are being anorexic, sometimes are the ones who do not get attention from their parents.