"EHL": The Scientific Diet Plan of 2010 ..... A Healthy Alternative of both Pro-Ana & Pro-Mia

Prof. Dr. Mohamed Elhashemy
Millions of people, especially teenaged females, allover world are now affected by some kind of eating disorder, the common known types being anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.

The promotion of anorexia nervosa on the web as a lifestyle choice rather than an eating disorder referred to as pro-ana. While the promotion of bulimia nervosa on web as another lifestyle choice refers to as the pro-mia.

Anorexia nervosa describes an eating disorder characterized by extremely low body weight and body image distortion with an obsessive fear of gaining weight. Individuals with anorexia nervosa are known to control body weight commonly through the means of voluntary starvation, usually patients are adolescent females, they have intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, their BMI is usually lower than 17.5. It is a complex condition that can cause death in its severe cases.

On the other hand, bulimia nervosa is characterized by recurrent binge eating due to lack of control, followed by compensatory behaviors. These behaviors include: self-induced vomiting, purging; fasting, the use of laxatives, enemas, or aggressive exercising.

Nowadays, psychiatrists have observed a rising number of websites promoting both types of eating disorders, as a lifestyle choice, rather than as serious mental disorders. Considering both disorders as lifestyle, make many girls feel secure when following such regimens.

I think that teenaged girls starve themselves through following Pro-ana & pro-mia because they have no other alternative to become slim.

However, if they follow my Elhashemy´s Hypophagic Lifestyle "EHL" diet, they will loose all their excess fat, but will not reduce their body weight below normal BMI standards. This is due to the fact that following "EHL" preserves their muscles from shrinking, so they will achieve their targeted weight in healthy manner. Accordingly, I hope that dietitians after studying "EHL" may promote "EHL" as a healthy dieting lifestyle.

The teenaged girls may be assured by dietitians to observe the following scientific data:

1. The less they eat, the more they will lose weight.

2. The more they are free to eat temptation foods on a certain diet, the longer they will keep on such diet.

3. The more frequent they are trained on micro-meals "Luqaimat" the more cerebral neuro-plasticity becomes acquainted to such small volumes.

4. "EHL" is the only diet that achieves total fat loss, without shrinking muscular volume.

I think that "EHL" will be the scientific diet plan of year 2010.