Overcoming medical complications of eating disorders. Gaudiani J.L.

an exhaustive and understandable review of medical complications, which often accompany eating disorders!

This book is a medical view of the problem of eating disorders. Written by a practicing doctor, it will be useful not only to patients and their relatives, but also to doctors who work with people suffering from RPP. In the book, the author in simple language will tell you how harmful “cleaning” do the body, what happens to our body when we starve, and how disorders of food behavior are able to put a person on the brink of life and death. In addition to a purely medical aspect, the author also touches in the book a number of social problems, such as a biased attitude and stigmatization of people with excess weight, the modern “culture of diets” and the shortcomings of the healthcare system, because of which people with the RPP often cannot receive the so necessary for them Help.

patients with food disorders often think that they are “not sick at all,” and they do not need to seek the help of a doctor! And all this, despite the numerous medical problems - both those that have already been manifested by symptoms, and those that are not yet visible to the naked eye. It is difficult for such people to come to terms with the fact that to start recovery, they need peace, full nutrition and help of professionals. This book offers patients, their relatives and practicing doctors, an exhaustive and understandable review of medical complications, which often accompany esophagus disorders, illustrated with recognizable life stories and written in a scientifically verified, but at the same time in a slight and fascinating style.

Using metaphors and a language understandable for the patient, Dr. Gaudiani resolutely condemns the so -called “culture of diets” and seeks to improve the quality of medical diagnostics and treatment, motivate to recover and help accept himself and his life experience to all patients, regardless of size and form bodies.