More and more men suffer an anorexia ...

Anorexia long time were considered basically female as an illness. However experts confirm: the problem consists that men frequently hesitate to address to doctors with similar problems, writes Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

According to results of the research spent by Institute of a name of Robert Kokh in 2008, every fifth child at the age of 11-17 years has symptoms of disturbance of alimentary behaviour. Among boys and young men it makes 15 %, among girls and girls - it is twice more. So, psychologist Andreas Shnebele has based three years ago therapeutic group to help to cope with an illness to men who cannot accept nutrition.

As notes the edition, the principle of restoration Shnebele is based that together for the period of therapy carrying out there live from two to six men with whom psychologists work, dieticians and social workers. Besides, experts confirm, what exactly at men the anorexia often turns out to be consequence desires to supervise the body.

"They feel defenceless before world around, against conflicts to parents or friends", - speaks Kathrin Druccell from Institute of problems of a food in Vienna. Nevertheless, professor Manfred Fihter notes, it is impossible to draw an image of a typical family in which the child by definition will face problems of such character.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung cites as an example a case with 28-year-old German Lukasom Schmidt who tried to commit suicide, half a year has lain in clinic and continues treatment in special group in Munich. Before getting to clinic with the diagnosis an anorexia, Lucas weighed 46 kg.

"The meal was for me lethal test. Being the teenager I wished to subordinate to the control at least the body as all could not supervise the rest. I have been inclined to aggression", - tells Lucas. Now it was limited one food intake in day - salad.
One of the reasons of diffusion of a man's anorexia - in cardinal change of ideals of man's beauty, continues Andreas Shnebel. He notices, that the trained lean body, for example, the football player becomes the standard of man's beauty.

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