Eating disorders are all around us. The person you believe to be extremely confident, can barely look at himself in the mirror. The girl who you wish you were like, she is just starting to eat again. You can’t always see it by looking at someone. Once you talk to them you can learn that depression takes over their life and they can’t sleep at night because of their anxiety. In America 30 million people have suffered from an eating disorder at one point in their life. One out of a hundred women in middle and upper class under the age of twenty five suffer from an eating disorder. Even more startling is that one out of every five dancers has an eating disorder. It is alarming to think that many people worry and struggle with eating.Though with
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Anorexia Nervosa is generally characterized as self-induced, inadequate, or absence of food intake. The side effects of anorexia are a low body weight, osteoporosis or bone weakness, low heart rate and blood pressure, dehydration leading to kidney failure, dry skin, hair loss, spontaneous vomiting, and amenorrhea. When the body is deprived of food the heart muscle to change causing heart rate and blood pressure to drop. Amenorrhea is also caused by food deprivation. Amenorrhea has two stages. Stage one is when the menstrual cycle never occurs. The second stage is when the menstrual cycle stops after having it before. Along with these side effects there are also mental symptoms such as trouble with self-esteem, the inability to understand the severity of the situation, and an obsession with weight, fitness, calories, and …show more content…
Bulimia involves two steps, bingeing and purging. Bingeing is when a person consumes large amount of food no matter what their body is telling them. Purging is self-induced vomiting, this is thought of as compensation. This causes many issues with the mouth and digestive system. These include swelling of the cheeks or jaw, teeth discoloration and decay, inflammation and possible rupture of the esophagus, constipation and irregular bowel movements, and an electrolyte imbalance. Bulimia also has many more warning signs including frequents trips to the bathroom, excessive exercise, calluses located on the knuckles, and finding empty wrappers for food, laxatives or
Anorexia Nervosa is generally characterized as self-induced, inadequate, or absence of food intake. The side effects of anorexia are a low body weight, osteoporosis or bone weakness, low heart rate and blood pressure, dehydration leading to kidney failure, dry skin, hair loss, spontaneous vomiting, and amenorrhea. When the body is deprived of food the heart muscle to change causing heart rate and blood pressure to drop. Amenorrhea is also caused by food deprivation. Amenorrhea has two stages. Stage one is when the menstrual cycle never occurs. The second stage is when the menstrual cycle stops after having it before. Along with these side effects there are also mental symptoms such as trouble with self-esteem, the inability to understand the severity of the situation, and an obsession with weight, fitness, calories, and …show more content…
Bulimia involves two steps, bingeing and purging. Bingeing is when a person consumes large amount of food no matter what their body is telling them. Purging is self-induced vomiting, this is thought of as compensation. This causes many issues with the mouth and digestive system. These include swelling of the cheeks or jaw, teeth discoloration and decay, inflammation and possible rupture of the esophagus, constipation and irregular bowel movements, and an electrolyte imbalance. Bulimia also has many more warning signs including frequents trips to the bathroom, excessive exercise, calluses located on the knuckles, and finding empty wrappers for food, laxatives or