ANOREXIA, BULIMIA, AND OTHER APPETITE AND EATING DISORDERS
by Dr. Lawrence Wilson
© February 2019, LD Wilson Consultants, Inc.
All
information in this article is solely the opinion of the author and is for
educational purposes only. It is
not for the diagnosis, treatment, prescription or cure of any disease or health
condition.
DEFINITIONS
Anorexia means a
lack of appetite.
Anorexia
nervosa
is a chronic lack of appetite for psychological reasons such as to rebel
against a parent or other authority figure. We find, at times, that what is labeled anorexia nervosa is
a low zinc level, not a psychological problem.
Bulemia is a disorder in which a person
eats, but then regurgitates the food into the toilet after the meal.
Other
appetite disorders include binge eating, eating dirt, ice or other non-food
items, and overeating.
WHY
DO PEOPLE HAVE APPETITE DISORDERS?
The reasons
can be classified according to the 7 system:
1.
Physical or biochemical imbalances.
For example, physical difficulties might be problems swallowing. Biochemcial
imbalances include low zinc or excessive copper that turns off the appestat mechanism. This is the normal messaging system
that tells a person when it is time to eat.
Food
cravings. These are often caused
by nutritional or other chemical imbalances in the body. For example:
-
One may crave particular nutrients found in foods. The body may crave calcium found in
milk, or magnesium found in chocolate, or sodium in salty foods.
- One may
crave stimulants. Many people
need their ÔfixÕ of sugar, salt, caffeine or other chemicals just to get
through the day. This is food
addiction. The food might increase the oxidation rate or have other pleasurable
effects.
- Food toxins or chemicals may cause cravings. They
may influence a person through taste, odors or consistency. MSG, for example, seems to increase
appetite. Food processors use this
fact to sell hundreds of processed food items.
- Metabolic imbalances such as a fast or slow
oxidation can cause intense cravings. Fast oxidizers may crave alcohol or
carbohydrates to supply energy.
Some crave fats to slow down the oxidation rate.
Slow
oxidizers often crave sugars and perhaps protein to maintain their blood sugar,
which tends to be chronically low.
- Illnesses such as low or high blood sugar, Ôleaky
gutÕ, yeast infections, sinus disorders or just fatigue can cause cravings.
2.
Emotional reasons. Feeding is one of the first and most basic areas of life
that a newborn baby experiences.
Early life trauma such as problems breastfeeding or separation from
oneÕs mother too soon can upset oneÕs relationship to food. Trauma can also occur later in
childhood or adulthood.
3.
Control issues. Not eating is
a way to maintain control if one feels oneÕs life is out of control. It can also be a way to rebel against
parental or other authority.
4.
Social reasons. One may
develop an eating disorder due to peer pressure or to get along with
others. For example, if one is
overweight, one may decide that to be popular one must stop eating to lose
weight.
5.
Expressive reasons. Eating or not
eating can be a way to express oneÕs preferences, such as fasting to protest an
injustice in society.
6.
Ideological reasons. Some peopleÕs
eating patterns are based on ideologies such as vegetarianisms, raw foodism, mono-meals, intermittent fasting or other food
scheduling ideas.
7.
Religious or spiritual reasons.
This includes keeping a kosher or halal diet,
or becoming vegetarian to avoid bad karma.
EATING
DISORDERS
ANOREXIA
These
disorders are discussed in more detail in the 2010 and later editions of Nutritional
Balancing And Hair Mineral Analysis. To summarize:
- Anorexia is a very serious disorder
with a high mortality rate.
- It is a complex illness. It is not simple. The person feels better when he or she
does not eat, and there is little appetite, so the person does not eat.
- Copper
imbalance is usually present with anorexia and bulimia. High copper and low zinc are associated
with loss of taste and smell, and therefore a lack of appetite. This is a very common situation
today. It causes many people to
eat irregularly or skip meals. It
also causes many people to eat very spicy, sugary or salty food because otherwise
they do not taste their food very much.
This is unfortunate and recovery of the natural senses is a slow process
of balancing the body chemistry.
- Distortions of the body image
is also an important factor in some cases of anorexia. This, too, may have to do with copper
imbalance. Copper is associated
with a tendency to detach, ÔspacinessÕ, or schizoid
tendencies.
- Anorexia
is a very dangerous condition because it feeds upon itself biochemically. As the copper imbalance worsens, the
person eats less, and this worsens the zinc deficiency and copper excess. If this vicious cycle cannot be broken,
death may ensue. Therefore,
nutritional approaches may be extremely helpful or even life-saving.
- This
disorder can involve entities or discarnate souls that are particularly
vicious.
RECOVERY
FROM ANOREXIA NERVOSA
Important! Recovery from anorexia may require
plenty of counseling and even hospitalization to force feed the person for a
while, and to make sure the person understands the seriousness of the
condition.
The person
should remain well-supervised for months or longer
until one is sure that the person has completely overcome the condition. Otherwise, it can recur and can be
fatal.
A
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR APPETITE DISORDERS
A
development program can be helpful by restoring many nutrients to the
body. This will reduce cravings
and improve mental clarity, which can also help restore normal eating. Removing toxic metals can also help
restore a normal appetite.
Balancing
copper in the body is not easy in all cases, but development programs excel at
this. This has helped many with
anorexia and bulimia.
Restoring
the bodyÕs energy level by balancing the oxidation rate helps improve mood and
general mental functioning. It can
also greatly enhance self-esteem and self-awareness to enable a person to
overcome fears and distortions in oneÕs body image.
Some
discipline is required, however, to follow the program properly and those with
anorexia may need counseling and other assistance to stay with the program,
especially at first.
HAIR MINERAL INDICATORS FOR APPETITE
DISORDERS
Hair must
not be washed at the laboratory for accurate readings. At this time, we only trust hair
mineral testing by Analytical Research Labs (2/2019). Indicators include:
- Copper
greater than 2.5 mg%.
- Zinc less
than 15 mg%.
- Other
indicators are much less specific and could include elevated toxic metals such
cadmium above 0.008 mg% or mercury above 0.035 mg%. Other patterns are possible, as well.
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