Picky likes Including Food Illness

The direct impact of a picky food habits is not as bad as the other eating disorders. However, if left unchecked, in the long run this disorder can threaten the health of bones and heart.


Quoted from Dailymail, Sunday (11/07/2010), a person who has Selective Eating Disorder (SED) is not able to control the food choices that will be eaten. For example just want to eat certain foods, or foods that are cooked in certain ways.


Compared with other eating disorders like anorexia or bulimia, the SED did not get much attention. In addition to the effects seen are not too many, many theories which refer to the SED as a normal phase in a child's psychological growth.


New problems arise when these disorders experienced by adults, who apply the restrictions are too strict on food choices. According to the American Psychological Association (APA), in the long run this practice can lead to various problems related to deficiencies or nutritional deficiencies.


Heart problems and blood vessels is one of them. If the choice of foods contain more salt and cholesterol, then the SED will be a patient at risk of hypertension, heart attack or stroke.


Whereas if you tend to choose a soda and sugary foods, your teeth will be easier porous. Likewise, if do not like milk or other foods that contain calcium, it will be easy porous bones.

Various studies have not managed to conclude with certainty how the disorder may occur, but allegedly related to a specific response to food that has a certain texture and smell. Speculation others say, obsessive-compulsive disorder (not able to control the mind) played a role in the SED.


As a form of concern, the psychologist in the APA is considering aligning the SED with major eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia. SED will dimasukkkan in the category of eating disorders are "not otherwise specified '.


If agreed, the new category will be raised by the APA in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders upcoming edition.