{"id":170788,"date":"2025-09-03T14:36:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/?p=170788"},"modified":"2025-09-04T17:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T23:41:09","slug":"journal-of-obesity-and-eating-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/health\/journal-of-obesity-and-eating-disorders\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating Disorders Are the Most Lethal Chronic Disease Among Young People, This Tool Can Improve Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Globally, an estimated 14 million people\u2014including three million children and adolescents\u2014suffer from an eating disorder<\/a> (ED). As with other mental illnesses, these disorders are shrouded in taboos, making diagnosis and treatment often complicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTalking about them, seeking help, and seeing them as what they are\u2014illnesses\u2014are the first steps toward recovery,\u201d says Cipatli Ayuzo<\/a>, a pediatrician and researcher at TecSalud<\/a>\u2019s Adolescent Clinic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the most common misconceptions about these disorders is that they only affect adolescent girls <\/strong>who \u201cwant attention\u201d and that simply choosing to eat is enough to overcome them. Still, the reality is much more complex than that. They can affect anyone, regardless of age, gender, sex, or ethnicity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In practice, Ayuzo and her colleagues have observed that an increasing number of adolescents suffering from these conditions are coming to their offices, which is consistent with studies indicating\u00a0an alarming rise in these conditions among that age group worldwide<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey are the third most common chronic disease in children and adolescents<\/strong>, after asthma and obesity, but of those three, they are the deadliest,\u201d the researcher says. \u201cPatients die of cardiac arrest or suicide\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To contribute to optimal, adequate, and sufficient treatment, Ayuzo, together with Sugely Fonseca, Luisana Castillo, Valeria Rodr\u00edguez, and Nayeli Andrade \u2212colleagues from the Adolescent Clinic<\/strong> and the Eating Disorders Unit<\/strong> (UTCA )\u2212 recently published a guided diary<\/a><\/strong> that serves as a tool to understand patients’ relationship with food and their body acceptance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It includes a section that explains what eating disorders are, the journal itself, and resources for patients who want to seek help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAny Spanish-speaking person can use it\u201d, says Ayuzo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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