Is it true that if you have anorexia you bloat?

Question

This is my question because we see pictures of girls today (i.e.- nicole riche, mary-kate(ashley?) ) that are super skinny and are accused with having anorexia....so WHY. i DO NOT understand why this is. anorexia is supposed to equal bone skinny, yet i also see kids in africa who are starved and are bloated!

so would they also be considered anorexic?

PLEASE! help me understand! is there a difference? they both aren't eating? why does one bloat and the others don't???

Answer 1

It's because there are 2 different conditions. Anorexia is the abstaining from all food.

Children from Africa are suffering from a condition called Kwashiorkor, which is a disease that is characterized by decreased protien metabolism due to inadequate protien intake. This disease usually hits children when they are weaned off of their mother's breast milk before they are old enough to start eating meat. So they are sufficing off of pure carbohydrates.

So what ends up happening is the body begins to take protien out of the visceral (body organ) compartment for general metabolic purposes. What ends up happening is organ most directly affecte is the liver, which begins to fill with fat and ends up swelling to cause the abdomen to swell.

Okay, so basic sum up to your questions. Anorexics take protien out of the muscles while kids who have kwashiorkor take protien out of the organ area. So while they both aren't eating, they both have two different disease manifestations.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I wondered this too. The prisoners in the WW2 camps did not look bloated, they looked like a rack of bones. Yet the starving third world children have bloated stomachs. I wonder what causes the stomach to be bloated also?

Answer 4

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Answer 5

the children seem bloated on the grounds that they dont have any meals to consume for many years, so the frame does not have any fats to make use of for heat and different services bought from meals. so their stomache's bloat from loss of meals and enzymes and different stuff

Answer 6

anorexia causes constipation because you dont get enough nutrients including dietary fiber) which leads to bloating.
kids in africa dont have laxatives and diuretics to take for bloating comparing to people in the usa.

Answer 7

The anorexics that you see are retards, and they don't bloat because they still drink water. The starving children in Africa bloat because their internal organs are being squeezed, and the remaining water in their bodies have to protect them. Of course there is a difference from being a retarded anorexic, and being starved because the African government is too greedy to help them.