Eating disorders

Eating Disorders in Female Athletes Females have struggled with their identity as well as their appearance on the athletic field. However female student athletes have struggled with trying to be the perfect athlete. Female athletes are at greater risk for getting eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating because of the pressures sports bring but treatment helps the ones suffering overcome the disorder. Many female athletes feel pressured into fitting into the stereotypical…

HOW TO RECOGNIZE AND DEAL WITH EATING DISORDERS When I say "‘eating disorder"’ I bet the first thing that went through your mind was "‘anorexia," ’, perhaps accompanied by an image of thin young girl. This common misconception causes many cases of eating disorders to go unrecognized. The truth is that eating disorders do not only affect women. In fact, you don’t even need to be thin to suffer from an eating disorder. Eating disorders are more common than you might think. The World Health…

Eating Disorders An eating disorder is a psychological affliction that affects the stability of body weight and normality of eating habits in an individual. Eating disorders also affect one’s social life, psychological state, and physical health, often coexisting with other psychological disorders. For instance, substance abuse, depressive disorders, and anxiety disorders are commonly diagnosed in people with eating disorders. Contrary to the common belief that eating disorders only affect…

“what causes eating disorders in professional dancers?” is asked to help conduct research to find specific information pertaining this topic. This opens up a lot of areas of expertise relating to professional dancers and what they have to go through on an everyday basis. This also opens up topics relating mental and physical health of a professional dancer, and how that can affect bigger aspects which can lead to eating disorders or disordered eating. Case studies on eating disorders in…

Publicity for Eating Disorders was nonexistent until Karen Carpenter died in 1983 due to anorexia. This was the first time the mass media was exposed to the seriousness of eating disorders. After Carpenter’s death, anorexia became known as the “disorder of the 80’s”. An estimate of up to 3.7% of women suffers from anorexia nervosa in their lifetime and about 1% of adolescent females’ have anorexia. If anorexia was considered the disorder of the 80’s perhaps bulimia was the disorder of the 90’s.…

The causes and effects of eating disorders. The causes and effects of eating disorders can lead to drastic measures. There are many types of eating disorders, and they can affect anyone, at any point in their lifetime. Most effects such as binging, purging, and or overeating takes place in a secluded area such as a bathroom, or bedroom caused by activities due to society, hereditary factors, and food influences such as GMOS. Society’s definition of beauty is deeply flawed. Magazines,…

Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder. It creates a non-healthy obsession in people about what they eat. They may obsess negatively about their weight and might starve or stop eating altogether. Studies conducted in Australia and New Zealand has seen an increased surge in the number of anorexia nervosa patients identified in the youth community. It was seen that almost half of adolescent girls are seen to have practices extreme dieting. They have done induced vomiting and also smoke so as to…

The media is known to affect the way people see themselves and how they feel about their bodies. However, it is argued whether or not the media plays a role in the development of eating disorders in men and women. There has been a huge rise in the number of BDDs (Body Dysmorphia Disorders) such as Anorexia Nervosa, Muscle Dysmorphia, and Bulimia Nervosa. The media produces an image portrayed to people that is close to impossible to obtain. The media uses plastic surgery and highlights to make…

but the families who had to watch their love ones suffer. I never realized how an eating disorder can really affect someone’s life. Hearing about eating disorders, and reading statics pale in comparison to watching this documentary. It took me inside the lives of the women in the community center. They also made me focus in on the four women clients in the documentary. They all were dealing with an eating disorder, but had different problems which made it unique. Shelly trying to lose weight by…

Binge-eating disorder is a severe eating disorder which occurs when you over consume a large amount of foods in one sitting and not able to stop yourself from eating even when you have reached an uncomfortable feeling of fullest. Sufficiently, majority of the peoples tend to overeat more occasionally when it comes to special occasion and holidays like Thanksgiving. For most people’s having seconds or thirds for the Thanksgiving dinner is okay, because it an once in a while event. The only time…