Drunkorexic home of drunkorexia

Did that remind you of your frosh week? How about a bunch of cool people partying in a movie?

It doesn’t matter how much they address this problem, it doesn’t matter how many research and education programs they run, drunkorexia is bound to win. Here is a frosh, recently turned 19, assuming they waited till the legal age limit to start drinking (RIGHT!), for a lot first time away from home, living on campus, everyone partying. Of course, the first thing they would do is go to their information resource center and pick up a pamphlet about drunkorexia and not drink for the rest of the frosh week.

Logically, as a person in their late teens, who do you think they will inevitably follow? The nerdy professor running the research (no offense)? The fat lady at the counter (no offense)? Or the dudes with six packs and chicks with perfect bodies partying at the beach, that our youth have been watching for number of years on our dear old television? You guessed it right, temptation is the winner.

Then again, with two out of ten people saving their calories for alcohol; 80%, those are pretty good odds for the rest of us. Colleges and universities can take all the credit they want for their “alcohol education programs”, however, for some reason they are not considering common sense as a part of the equation. How many of us, during our college and university training voluntarily gone to one of these “alcohol abuse” orientations? How many times have we been forced to sit through such presentations? Whether it be drunkorexia or any other disorder, end of the day, common sense prevails.

It is imperative that we start training our children to be better decision makers and as they grow older, they must be able to understand the risks associated with disorders such as drunkorexia or other eating disorders. Once you reach college, universities or even high school, it is already too late. We as parents must teach our kids that every act has a consequence. The long-term consequences of heavy drinking, and eating disorder combined; i.e. drunkorexia, are dire and our youth should know that before they enter colleges or universities.

Drinking without food in our body makes us drunk faster and of course costs less but isn’t doing our bodies any good. Our body doesn’t get any nutrition, carbohydrates being the brain food, brain doesn’t get any, no wonder it is hard to think straight. It is only natural not to do good in our classes and make bad decisions in general, excessive alcohol and lack of food (drunkorexia) hits us with temporary cognitive disabilities. Those disabilities become long-term when we continue to engage in similar behavior for long periods of time, leading to more serious health problems, eating disorders and drug addictions.

The research has also proved that youth who engage in acts such as drunkorexia, whether with or without choice, are at a higher risk for violence, sexually transmitted infections, alcohol poisoning, drug overdoses, and of course chronic illnesses as they grow older. Women are effected more as their bodies process alcohol differently than men. Their young bodies can only take the abuse for so long, we all get old one day. Too bad we only live once!