It starts at a young age. Who knew you would hear a young girl as small as six years old saying she fears becoming fat, overweight, or obese when she gets older. When you see a six year old she is playing with her friends on the playground running to the swings and climbing on the slides the wrong way. Mothers, fathers, and family members give us Barbie dolls as young …show more content…
Blowing it off like it is nothing, when in reality it is a huge situation. Anorexia nervosa is where a person starves themselves, to lose their appetite for food, it can be an emotional disorder which can be characterized to have an obsession to lose weight by refusing to eat. At a maximum of 4.2% of women in America have suffered from this in their lifetime. Anorexia can become deathly, the mortality rates are higher then they should be, it is one of the highest mortality rates in the mental illness categories. It is estimated 4% of anorexic individuals die from complications due to the diseases. But only a third of women in the United States get treatment.
Bulimia nervosa can be described as gross. But in actual words, it can be caused by or through depression involving body image or weight. It is to become obsessed with losing weight by extreme overeating followed by forced vomiting, purging, or fasting. Discovery has it, at least four percent of women in America have been bulimic in their lifetime. The mortality rates are one percent to high. At least three point nine percent of these individuals die due to the complications bulimia