AWARENESS OF EATING DISORDER AMONG DIFFERENT GENDER

*Amber Nawab, Sidra Ghayas, Misbah Ansari, Mizna Iqbal, Javeria Sheikh

ABSTRACT

Background: A research based program is carried out to highlight the eating habits in male and female to enlighten the imperfect eating pattern in various genders. Objective: To attain food is among the basic need of living thing but of good quality and in sufficient quantity which is not really considered by the humans causes eating disorders which leads to harmful medical conditions. Eating disorder may be an outcome of so many factors like psychological, physiological, environmental etc. So need arises to spread the awareness related to eating abnormalities in population and swamped it, which is an underline objective of this research. Methodology: An awareness program was chosen to conducted through a research in which a questionnaire was designed consisting of different questions related to eating pattern and was filled by man and women of different age groups, belongs to different communities and of peculiar professions. They were allowed to fill those interrogations and submitted back on that data statistical calculation was applied to evaluate the results and to archive the conclusion. Result: The results reveal that very less number of people has awareness regarded to eating disorder and it is obvious in our society because health is not consider as mandatory for happy life neither in male gender nor in females. Conclusion: Healthy life is like a blessing which can be secured through balance diet, proper daily routine, appropriate physical activities etc. The proper, healthy eating habit can increase life to many folds or an improper, unhealthy food can do vice versa. So it is now like an obligation of health professionals to prevail the knowledge and awareness among the population irrespective of any gender through variable mediums.

Keywords: awareness, gender, eating pattern.