Heartbeats predict anorexia

Listen to your own heartbeats , would allow a person to discover if he / she is susceptible to suffer a Eating Disorder (TAC), especially anorexia, according to researchers from the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London.

In her study, applied to healthy women between the ages of 19 and 26, it shows that those who concentrated on counting their beats and recognize your heart rate , they could "objectify and value" their body more, at the same time that they listened and knew their real image, according to dailymail.co.uk

Anorexia, which is a disorder of eating behavior, is also considered a biopsychosocial disease, as explained by the Dr. Aracely Aizpuro, director of the Ellen West Foundation , in an interview with GetQoralHealth :

Regarding the results of Royal Holloway research, scientists explain how much more accurate is the perception of the heartbeat , by the person, less likely to think of their bodies as objects, which becomes a factor to reduce the risk of suffering from this disorder of eating behavior.

"The results of the research have important implications for dissatisfaction with body image, as well as for the understanding of clinical disorders that are linked to self-objectification, such as anorexia", explains Dr. Manos Tsakiris, one of the authors of the study. study.

The alteration in the perception of one's own body is one of the characteristics of eating behavior disorders, as demonstrated by another study of the Ruhr University of Bochum in Germany , where it was found that a "connection error" in the brain of people with CT scans, caused them to look more "fat than they really were".

Published in the magazine Behavior Brain Research, in the study it was possible to determine that the connection between the two regions that process the images of the body, in the left hemisphere of the brain, was weaker in the anorexic women than in the healthy women, reason why an alteration in their perception.

Therefore, the importance of the study of Royal Holloway lies in learning to listen to one's own beats , as well as the body in general, allows a person to have real self-awareness, which would help prevent eating disorders.


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