School stress causes eating disorders

• April 25, 2024

Starting or finishing a school period is a season of stress that can cause certain problems related to the consumption of foods , affirms Loredana Tavano, coordinator of the degree in Nutrition of the Ibero-American University (UIA), for the newspaper Reforma.

"The response to stress is very different from each other [students] but, mainly, we see two types of symptoms: those that consume a quantity excessive of foods or they run out of appetite. "

The expert assures that this is because the students, university students, do not organize their times well and often leave for the Last moment the jobs, tasks and presentations, so they have little time to eat and they neglect their feeding .

"This affects your body, the most frequent symptom is gastritis, which can result from overeating or less, combined with headaches, bad sleep and poor hydration "he says.

The specialist comments that those who suffer from eating disorders, such as a compulsive eater or someone suffering from anorexia or bulimia, may see this problem exacerbated during periods of student stress, although this is not necessarily the main cause.

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