Ten million women and one million men will undergo an eating disorder sometime in their life that will inadvertently cause harm to their body or even death. Of those eleven million people a great percentage will be athletes. However, the amount of people who have an eating disorder will vary depending on the kind of sport. It all depends on the weight class for that particular sport. For instance, Gymnasts need to have a low body weight while those who wrestle might need to gain weight to enter a new weight division. An athlete who has an eating disorder might have behaviors such as self-induce vomiting, binging, taking laxatives, or even using saunas to help lose weight in any way. These kind of behaviors are more popular between the ages of fifteen and nineteen due to body dissatisfaction and participating in competition.
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Those who suffer from an eating disorder could have the following side effects: depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, substance use disorder, bipolar disorder, body dysmorphic disorder, and premature death by suicide or cardiac arrhythmia. Athletes performance can also suffer do to eating
Those who suffer from an eating disorder could have the following side effects: depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, substance use disorder, bipolar disorder, body dysmorphic disorder, and premature death by suicide or cardiac arrhythmia. Athletes performance can also suffer do to eating