Eating disorders

“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.…

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…

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…

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…

the years progress and eating disorders become more prevalent, different sources state their predictions following the mentioned factors above. The DSM in its current edition (5th; 2013) emphasizes a genetic or physiological predisposition whereas the National Institute of Health points to an obsession with food, body weight and shape, and a disruption in thinking patterns and development of compulsive eating (National Institute of Mental Health, 2006) Other references suggest that the…

Before reading this chapter I have never heard of binge eating disorder before, but I was familiar with anorexia and bulimia. This chapter I learned that this disorder was officially described in 1994, and since then it has become very popular in the older adult population. Binge-eating disorder is defined as a short period where a person uncontrollably consume large amount of food mostly junk or bad foods such as: ice cream, cookies, sweets, potato chips, very unhealthy snacks. according to…

Many things affect teens throughout their life. An eating disorder is one of the many hardships teenagers face. An eating disorder is a mental illness that causes a disturbance to your diet. The person with the disorder believes that they are not the right size. They either eat extremely small amounts of food or eat excessively. There are many signs of an eating disorder. One sign is Anorexia Nerviosa. The person feels that they are overweight. However, it is very obvious that they are…

positivity causes lower self-esteem and often leads to eating disorders. Many resources have come to the conclusion that lack of body positive and self-esteem leads to eating disorders. Teens and young girls with eating disorders are the reason why the media is trying to produce products that will help younger girls become less susceptible to shaming. Body positivity promotes self-love/acceptance of one's body, decreases stop eating disorders, and poor self-image. According to Mental Health…