Citation

de Diego Díaz Plaza M, Novalbos Ruiz JP, Rodríguez Martín A, Santi Cano MJ, Belmonte Cortés S. Nutr. Hosp. 2022; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022, Grupo Aula Médica Ediciones)

DOI

10.20960/nh.04180

PMID

35748367

Abstract

Eating behaviour disorders (ED) are a multifactorial pathology. Through the feedback tools of the social networks and the elements of comparison between equals of the most visual SMs, many users come to develop risk behaviours that in turn, give feedback to others. In addition, a sense of belonging to a group or tribe is created through communities whose members feel supported and where very restrictive diets are shared in an affective way, as well as ways of hiding these and other behaviours from those who do not belong to the group; both elements make it difficult for professionals and the family to intervene. It is virtually impossible to control those sites that advocate and promote behaviours that contribute to the development or maintenance of ATD. Cyber-bullying or intimidation through digital technologies often uses body image criticisms that damage the self-esteem of the most vulnerable, this cyber-bullying is a factor increasingly present in young people who have suffered an ATD. The key to prevention is considered to be media literacy in the use of SMs, as well as parental supervision of the youngest. People at risk or who have already been diagnosed with ACT find in these networks the social support they seek but are biased towards risk behaviours, when it is possible for health professionals to use them to the benefit of promoting healthy habits and for recovery from these disorders.

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