Anorexia
As a human being gets into anorexia it is really hard for them to stop. Someone well known for having anorexia is Karen Carpenter. She was a victim of anorexia and died of anorexic problems. It all started when she was a teenager. Karen would get called “chubby” at school and she began to lose lots and lots of weight. Anorexia is a lack or loss of appetite for food. “Known as a medical issue, it is an emotional disorder characterized by an obsessive desire to lose weight by refusing to eat.” Also anorexia affects women’s health and almost everything in her life. Anorexia is one of the most dangerous disorders that a women might have.
Usually it is easy to spot the signs of anorexia. One of those signs is that women start losing their hair. Anorexic people have really thin hair and it gets easier for their hair to fall out. Another sign is they have …show more content…
Then the individual is scared to gain weight. This specific eating disorder known as anorexia is a life threatening situation. The worst thing of having this eating disorder is that it ruins your image of how you look and how to you act. Melinda Smith and Jeanne Segall, on Helpguide, comment, “It’s only human to wish you looked different or could fix something about yourself. When you have anorexia, the desire to lose weight becomes more important than anything else. You may even lose the ability to see yourself as you truly are.” That is the problem with anorexia: people can not see how they truly are.
Karen Carpenter was a young woman when she started suffering of anorexia. She went from one hundred twenty pounds to ninety pounds. She went into hospitalization several and several times because of anorexic and heart problems. At age thirty two she had a severe heart attack. Years after of being a victim of anorexia she passed away in 1983. We have to be more careful with treating people with anorexia so they don’t end up like
As a human being gets into anorexia it is really hard for them to stop. Someone well known for having anorexia is Karen Carpenter. She was a victim of anorexia and died of anorexic problems. It all started when she was a teenager. Karen would get called “chubby” at school and she began to lose lots and lots of weight. Anorexia is a lack or loss of appetite for food. “Known as a medical issue, it is an emotional disorder characterized by an obsessive desire to lose weight by refusing to eat.” Also anorexia affects women’s health and almost everything in her life. Anorexia is one of the most dangerous disorders that a women might have.
Usually it is easy to spot the signs of anorexia. One of those signs is that women start losing their hair. Anorexic people have really thin hair and it gets easier for their hair to fall out. Another sign is they have …show more content…
Then the individual is scared to gain weight. This specific eating disorder known as anorexia is a life threatening situation. The worst thing of having this eating disorder is that it ruins your image of how you look and how to you act. Melinda Smith and Jeanne Segall, on Helpguide, comment, “It’s only human to wish you looked different or could fix something about yourself. When you have anorexia, the desire to lose weight becomes more important than anything else. You may even lose the ability to see yourself as you truly are.” That is the problem with anorexia: people can not see how they truly are.
Karen Carpenter was a young woman when she started suffering of anorexia. She went from one hundred twenty pounds to ninety pounds. She went into hospitalization several and several times because of anorexic and heart problems. At age thirty two she had a severe heart attack. Years after of being a victim of anorexia she passed away in 1983. We have to be more careful with treating people with anorexia so they don’t end up like