Informative Speech On Anorexia Nervosa

A young girl decides to skip dinner, she ignores her grumbling stomach and her mother gently encouraging her to eat. I just want to be thin she tells herself as she chokes back the tears.
A college student consumes an entire bag of fast food hamburgers stressing about upcoming exams, he runs to the bathroom and turns on the fan so his roommate can’t hear him forcing herself to vomit. A young mother locks herself in her room with a large pile of cookies and cake as she binges and shuts out the screams of her children these hypothetical synerios all have one thing in common. Eating disorders. Defined as a mental disorder that causes serious disturbances to the normal eating habits of the affected. Eating disorders are classified as mental illness. They can also have serious physical symptoms giving them the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. There are many types of eating disorders but the three most common are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder. Two of every 100 students will struggle or have struggled with an eating disorder. In this speech I am going to be …show more content…
(According toThe Renfrew Center Foundation for Eating Disorders), It is estimated that 1.0% to 4.2% of women have suffered from anorexia in their lifetime. Often severely underweight the anorexic struggles to lose weight with an intense fear of gaining weight. Many of those suffering from anorexia have a heavily distorted body image and they focus on non existent flaws and weight that docent exist. Many anorexics do not try to hid their disorder, only because they do not realize that they have a problem. This is where body dismorphia comes into play. Severe symptoms of anorexia develop over time and including but not limited to low blood pressure anemia and osteoporosis or thinning of the bones. These symptoms can even escalade to infertility or brain