The obsession with counting calories observed in people at risk of anorexia may be related to autism. That is the conclusion drawn by researchers from the University of Cambridge.
Understanding the relationship between autism and anorexia may lead to new, more effective treatments for this severe eating disorder. The researchers observed the health of 66 girls aged 12 to 16 years. All of them have passed through special tests to identify signs of autism. They were then compared with tests 1600 healthy adolescents.
The girls from the first group had been poorly developed empathy that is often found in people with autism. They are hard to recognize other people's emotions, but much better cope with various information systematization. Traditionally, anorexia has always been seen as a kind of eating disorders. But this study shows that the human mind with anorexia have much in common with the mind of the victim of autism.
Passion for systematization of information explains why the thoroughness with which the girls with anorexia calorie count. They also create a whole system of evaluation of its own weight and body shape, as reported in the journal Molecular Autism. To help such girls will switch from one system to another. For example, in the riding, which also includes a set of rules and restrictions, but allows you to escape from the power supply. (READ MORE)
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