This Saturday, May 6, commemorates the International No Diet Dayan annual celebration that emerged in the United States with the aim of raising awareness about the diversity of forms of the human body.
This date, which is also dedicated to calling attention to and remembering the dangers of some exaggerated diet regimens, arose in 1992 when British feminist Mary Evans Young decided to fight the weight loss industry and alert the world to the dangers of anorexia nervosa and other eating disorders.
From this movement emerged the so-called “Body positivity”, initially created to empower people with overweightwhile challenging and questioning the ways in which society presents and observes the human body.
The movement defends the acceptance of all bodiesregardless of your degree of disability, size, gender, race, or appearance.
He “body positive” has been criticized for encouraging lifestyles that could negatively affect health. A recurring criticism, even among professionals, is that too much approval from people obese and being overweight can discourage them from trying to improve their health.
How are we?
Obesity in mexico
Although, the International No Diet Dayarose against eating disorders that lead to extreme thinness, the reality is that diseases such as anorexia and bulimia have a much lower record, compared to overweight and obesity.
According to the Ministry of Health, so far in 2023, 5,128 cases of anorexia, bulimia and other eating disorders have been diagnosed in the country, of which just over 74 percent correspond to Mexico City.
This public health problem is not alien to the southeast region, since in the peninsula the authorities have reported 41 patients diagnosed with this type of disorder, Yucatan monopolizing 26 of the cases, while Quintana Roo reports 13 and Campeche 2.
According to the demographic data, these conditions mainly affect the female sex, with 34 cases, compared to seven men in the three states.
stratospheric obesity
Quintana Roo leads in the peninsula
In contrast, in the first 16 weeks of 2023, 12,208 new cases of obesity diagnosed. The state with the most cases is Quintana Roo, which has 5,340 patients, followed by Yucatán with 4,766 and Campeche with 2,102. The problem affects women more, with 7,565 of the cases (61.97%).
Facing these sufferings, there are 469 cases of obesity for every case of bulimiaanorexia or other eating disorder in the yucatan peninsula.
Anorexy
The peninsula exceeds 12 thousand new cases of obesity
According to the IMSS, the anorexy It is an eating disorder that causes people to lose more weight than is considered healthy for their age and height, because they fear gaining weight and have a distorted and delusional perception of the body that makes the patient see themselves as fat. same, so it resorts to fasting to eat less, causing changes in the body such as malnutrition, anemia and loss of bone calcification.
Bulimia
Food consumption takes the form of a binge, during which a large amount of food is ingested with a feeling of loss of control. These are episodes of voracity that are followed by a strong feeling of guilt, for which inappropriate compensatory measures are used, such as self-induction of vomiting, the excessive use of laxatives, diuretics or enemas, excessive exercise and prolonged fasting.
Obesity
Obesity
It is a chronic disease that is characterized by an excessive accumulation of fat in the body, which can have negative effects on health. It can be caused by factors such as genetics, diet, lack of physical activity, stress, and hormonal problems. It is a trigger for diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, respiratory problems, certain types of cancer and other health problems.
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