Eating Disorders Research Paper

Eating Disorders Eating disorders are characterized by abnormal eating patterns that might make you happy psychologically but not physically healthy. Bulimia and anorexia are two of the five most common type of eating disorders that there is in the world. Eating disorders don’t just affect teenage girls and women they can affect grown men and boys too. Many of the people that have bulimia and anorexia might not look like there is anything wrong with them because they still fall in a normal body weight range. Nowadays you hear more about people with eating disorders due to people wanting to fit into society and wanting to stay thin. The formal name for this illness is bulimia nervosa, but everybody knows it by bulimia, this disorder is characterized by binge eating, followed by getting rid of the calories consumed throughout the day by binging. Many people who who are bulimic are obsessed with their image and control. A professor in the department of psychiatry and neurology at the Tulane University …show more content…
“Today researchers find that for every female with anorexia, there is one man.” Just like girls, boys are at risk of getting anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa as well. Binge eating disorders happen equally between males and females, although men are less likely to feel guilty after binging as females are. There are many causes as to why men develop eating disorders.some factors include them being overweight as a child, they are in a sport that demands them to be thin or because of their jobs want them to be thin such as male models or actors. Just like the Barbie doll is the perfect body image for young girls, boys have action figures that have big muscles and are thin, so boy tend to want to be like them. Many men who watch TV commercials with actors who are muscular feel unhappy with their own physique which leads to eating disorders or steroid