Eating disorders arise mainly due to an unhealthy eating style like not taking the food at the right time, skipping the break fast, taking excessive food only once during the day etc.

Mostly the women will take diet and eat little food and the eating disorders are very common among the women but men are also affected in small numbers compared to women. Eating disorders could be a genetic disease too and mostly the eating habits are cited as the major reason for the eating disorder.

Nervosa is primary in the list of eating disorders and anorexia nervosa is the most common disorder seen among the girls who refuse to eat food in the fear of putting more weight and becoming fat. This will lead to a lot of complex problems including changes in the menstruation cycle and the entire bones of the body become very weak. This disorder increases the chances of getting heart attacks to a great extent.

Bulimia nervosa is another in the list of eating disorders which results as a result of doing excessive exercise and the person tends to vomit after eating food. While attending parties, people tend to eat more or binge eat the food items resulting in binge eating disorder which is another of the common list of eating disorders. The girls are crazy about getting the size zero and become very slim following the film actresses. To attain size zero, the girls have only little amount of food and become very slim and in one of the incidents, a popular film actress became unconscious in the shooting spot in the aim to become size zero. This is the major reason for the women to have a lot of eating disorder problems.

Pica is one among the common list of eating disorders that is commonly seen among the children. Children tend to chew and lick the chalks, mud, paper, wood and other non food items and as a result of this activity the children will suffer from eating disorders. These types of habits are even seen among certain adults. Children suffer from nutrition problems as they do not eat adequate food and are very playful. Children skip their meals and dump their lunch in to the dust bin in the schools causing them a lot of stomach related problems and eating disorders. Most of the children love eating snacks and other fast food items compared to food items and become obese in the young age itself.