Prevalência de transtornos alimentares entre a população heterossexual e homossexual na cidade de Curitiba - Paraná

Abstract

Patients with eating disorders have great complaints and anguishes over their bodies, exacerbated by the thin bodies diffusion and the happiness proposition it promises, reinforced by the media. Existing evidences and researches that were made demonstrate a higher eating disorders prevalence and greater impacts on body dissatisfaction. Therefore a higher demand for comfort while eating, among women, regardless of their sexuality. There is a lower rate of men in the surveys and they report a reduced eating disorder incidence, however their body displeasure is also evident. Research made with anonymous answers, quantitative, carried out through a form (Google Forms), distributed online.