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Source: http://iprep.ns.sg
Commercial caterers prepare the food you’ll eat in camps. There is a range of halal, non-halal and vegetarian menus. The meals are balanced and nutritious, with enough calories to fuel you for your training and enough nutrients to keep you healthy.
You will be eating 4 times a day — breakfast, lunch, dinner and night snack. This is to ensure that you’ll have enough energy for your training. During your enlistment day, your parents and loved ones will get a chance to try out the food.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorexia_nervosa
Anorexia nervosa, often referred to simply as anorexia,[1] is an eating disorder characterized by a low weight, fear of gaining weight, a strong desire to be thin, and food restriction.[2] Many people with anorexia see themselves as overweight even though they are underweight.[2][3] If asked they usually deny they have a problem with low weight.[4] Often they weigh themselves frequently, eat only small amounts, and only eat certain foods. Some will exercise excessively, force themselves to vomit, or use laxatives to produce weight loss. Complications may include osteoporosis, infertility, and heart damage among others.[2] Women will often stop having menstrual periods.[4]
The cause is not known. There appears to be some genetic components with identical twins more often affected than non-identical twins.[3] Cultural factors also appear to play a role with societies that value thinness having higher rates of disease.[4] Additionally, it occurs more commonly among those involved in activities that value thinness such as high level athletics, modelling, and dancing.[4][5] Anorexia often begins following a major life change or stress inducing event. The diagnosis requires a significantly low weight. The severity of disease is based on body mass index (BMI) in adults with mild disease having a BMI of greater than 17, moderate a BMI of 16 to 17, severe a BMI of 15 to 16, and extreme a BMI less than 15. In children a BMI for age percentile of less than the 5th percentile is often used.[4]
Treatment of anorexia involves restoring a healthy weight, treating the underlying psychological problems, and addressing behaviors that promote the problem. While medications do not help with weight gain, they may be used to help with associated anxiety or depression.[2] A number of types of therapy may be useful including an approach where parents assume responsibility for feeding their child, known as Maudsley family therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy.[2][6] Sometimes people require admission to hospital to restore weight.[4] Evidence for benefit from nasogastric tube feeding; however, is unclear.[7] Some people will just have a single episode and recover while others may have many episodes over years.[4] Many complications improve or resolve with regaining of weight.[4]
Globally anorexia is estimated to affect two million people as of 2013.[8] It is estimated to occur in 0.9% to 4.3% of women and 0.2% to 0.3% of men in Western countries at some point in their life.[9] About 0.4% of young females are affected in a given year and it is estimated to occur ten times less commonly in males.[9][4] Rates in most of the developing world are unclear.[4] Often it begins during the teen years or young adulthood.[2] While anorexia became more commonly diagnosed during the 20th century it is unclear if this was due to an increase in its frequency or simply better diagnosis.[3] In 2013 it directly resulted in about 600 deaths globally up from 400 deaths in 1990.[10] Eating disorders also increase a person's risk of death from a wide range of other causes including suicide.[2][9] About 5% of people with anorexia die from complications over a ten year period.[4] The term anorexia nervosa was first used in 1873 by William Gull to describe this condition.[11]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorexia_(symptom)
Anorexia is the decreased sensation of appetite. While the term in non-scientific publications is often used interchangeably with anorexia nervosa, many possible causes exist for a decreased appetite, some of which may be harmless, while others indicate a serious clinical condition or pose a significant risk.
For example, anorexia of infection is part of the acute phase response (APR) to infection. The APR can be triggered by lipopolysaccharides and peptidoglycans from bacterial cell walls, bacterial DNA, double-stranded viral RNA, and viral glycoproteins, which can trigger production of a variety of proinflammatory cytokines. These can have an indirect effect on appetite by a number of means, including peripheral afferents from their sites of production in the body, by enhancing production of leptin from fat stores. Inflammatory cytokines can also signal to the central nervous system more directly by specialized transport mechanisms through the blood–brain barrier, via circumventricular organs (which are outside the barrier), or by triggering production of eicosanoids in the endothelial cells of the brain vasculature. Ultimately the control of appetite by this
mechanism is thought to be mediated by the same factors normally
controlling appetite, such as neurotransmitters (serotonin, dopamine, histamine, norepinephrine, corticotropin releasing factor, neuropeptide Y, and α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone).[1]
Anorexia is a relatively common condition that can lead patients to have dangerous electrolyte imbalances, leading to acquired long QT syndrome which can result in sudden cardiac death. This can develop over a prolonged period of time, and the risk is further heightened when feeding resumes after a period of abstaining from consumption. Care must be taken under such circumstances to avoid potentially fatal complications of refeeding syndrome.[5]
4 meals a day, mentioned by eac with good guides.
The food is obsolutely edible and there could be bad food on some days and some days may be quite delicious. Treat is as you are having buffet every day though it is not self-service buffet. You will be served by the cooks.
Note: You cannot blame the chefs on bad food on some days as they are cooking in bulk and for the hell lot of people in camp.
There is canteen as well. Food stalls, food cooked by civilian. You may have to pay for the food. It is like school canteen. Sometimes canteen food is better than cookhouse food (place where NSF have their meals).
Advise to you - if you want to save up money, go for cookhouse food and tahan for 2 years. Canteen food sometimes may not fill your stomach compared to cookhouse which the cooks will sometimes graciously give big portion.
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Who can forget the excitment of having night snacks in BMT.
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