Can Eating Disorders Be Reversed?

An eating disorder is a severe disturbance in eating behaviour. However, it

can be difficult to recognize an eating disorder, given that our culture
condones dieting, views fat negatively, and values dieting as a sign of selfcontrol.

Also, the inability to diet, a reluctance to eat, or a tendency to binge eat

during times of stress can be misinterpreted as signs of a primary eating
disorder rather than as the symptoms of some other serious distress.
Dieticians often do not recognize the psychological factors that contribute
to the self-abusive behaviours of an Eating Disorder Solutions.

Specific eating disorders are known as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa,

and binge eating. The definitions and characteristics of these disorders are
as follows:

Anorexia Nervosa

Bulimia Nervosa

Binge Eating

Sufferers refuse to eat

enough to maintain
normal body weight for
height, claiming to not
feel hungry or that it is
uncomfortable to eat

Usually, bulimics are people

of normal weight who have
powerful urges to overeat,
which they alternate with
vomiting or purging to
control their weight

The rapid consumption of a large

amount of food in a discrete period of
time, usually less than 2 hours. Lack
of control during the episode. Not
associated with compensatory
behaviours of fasting/exercise

Characteristics

Characteristics

Characteristics

Refusal to
maintain minimum
body weight for
age/height
Intense fear of
gaining weight and
becoming fat
Body weight and
shape has undue
influence on selfevaluation. Denial of
seriousness of low body

Recurrent
inappropriate
compensatory behaviour to
prevent weight gain, e.g.,
self-induced vomiting,
inappropriate use of
laxatives, diuretics, fasting,
or excessive exercise
Binge eating and
compensatory behaviours
both occur, on average,
twice a week for 3 months

At least 3 of following
symptoms:
Eating much more rapidly
than normal, until feeling
uncomfortably full
Eating large amounts of
food when not physically hungry
Eating alone because
embarrassed about amount
eaten
Feeling disgusted with
oneself, depressed or guilty after

weight
Absence of a
minimum of 3
consecutive menstrual
cycles

Self-evaluation is
unduly influenced by body
shape and weight

over-eating
Marked distress
experienced regarding binge
eating
Binge eating occurs, on
average, 2 days per week for 6
months

Peter Damestoy is a well known and respected natural therapist

practicing in China and Australia since 1982.

In Brisbane Peter qualified in Homeopathy, Herbal Medicine. Allergy

Testing for over 500 Foods through Hair Analysis, Naturopathy, Diet and
Nutrition and is a Australian registered TCM practitioner.

Most recently at the Integrated Medicine Institute in Hong Kong

which is the largest, most prestigious natural therapies centre in
all of Asia, Peter was the senior natural therapist.

Having the advantage of seeing healing through a traditional Western

perspective and an alternative Chinese perspective helps to locate and
pinpoint problems areas and discuss major health concerns.

with a broad base of experience and know-how.

My focus is to accurately inform you of your internal health status and
identify with you what needs to be done.

Peter applies the most up to date Gold Standard Automated Diagnostic

and 3 D Medical Testing to find and develop a plan to remove any
infections, then on to repair damaged organs and restore optimal function
with natural remedies.

Peter leads the field by linking physical, mental, and emotional symptoms
with ordinary foods and substances we consume and breathe on a daily
basis.

Causes

Different causal factors will influence the development of an eating

disorder in each person. While many different causes have been put
forward for eating disorders, there is clearly no one factor that can be said
to be responsible for them.

Causes are usually not merely physical; physical changes are a

consequence, rather than a cause of an eating disorder. Psychopathalogic
causes play a large part in the drive for thinness, fatness, and extreme
concern with body shape and weight. Factors that may play a part include
stress-induced or comfort eating, disturbed family relationships
(enmeshment, over-involvement, blurring of boundaries, overprotectiveness, rigidity, or inability to resolve conflict), child sexual abuse,
and socio-cultural impact.

Peter Damestoy Naturopath Approach

Engaging in treatment for an eating disorder can be very difficult. The

client may experience shame, fear, anxiety, and ambivalence about
sharing their experience. Therefore, it is important that the counsellor or
therapist have an attitude of complete acceptance.

The initial interview will be conducted with both non-direct and directly
focused questions to assess and determine the nature of the client's
problem. Questions will relate to situational factors, history of the problem,
and attitudes toward food, eating, weight, body shape and dieting,
symptoms, and the effect these symptoms are having on the client's life.

Not all clients are ready to change. When they are ambivalent, the
advantages and disadvantages of maintaining the current situation will be
weighed, and aspects that will help them change and the obstacles they
must overcome will be reviewed.

Naturopath Brisbane-Gold Coast-Logan