Abstract

CRUZAT MANDICH, Claudia V.; HAEMMERLI DELUCCHI, Constance V.  and  GARCIA TRONCOSO, Andrea L.. Eating Disorders: Reflecting on the socio-cultural variables. Rev. Mex. de trastor. aliment [online]. 2012, vol.3, n.1, pp.54-61. ISSN 2007-1523.

Eating disorders (ED) are illnesses that had awakened enormous interest in social and health media in the last years. Thus now days, it is spoken of authentic epidemics, in which the diagnosis is late, existing multiple management difficulties and numerous risks in their development. This article aims to install a reflection on the importance of a socio-cultural context, since cultural beliefs and values associated to beauty and food would be linked to the subjectivity that surrounds this disease. In this sense, the characteristic symptoms of this disorder occur in a cultural reference framework that has to be analyzed.

Keywords : Eating Disorders; treatment; culture.