Eating disorders

Eating Disorders Modern day eating disorders in Western culture are not solely to be blamed on the “ideal image” that the media creates, however, such an image can still be incredibly harmful to those even those not predisposed to the disorders. Mainstream cultures as well as subcultures can all glorify thinness. Religious cultures such as the Mennonites and Amish community have patriarchal eating orders, by the time the young women eat, little food may be left and the amount of time to eat the…

Introduction Eating disorders (EDs) refer to a group of conditions characterized by abnormal eating habits. They involve either insufficient or excessive food intake that is detrimental to an individual’s physical and emotional health. (1,2) EDs are among the potentially lethal psychiatric illnesses, and are predominately represented by a mental effect of preoccupation with body weight, shape and diet. In addition, eating disorders frequently occur with other psychiatric disorders…

The complexity of the disorder lies not in the characteristics of the disease itself but in defining the root of the cause. Many people with eating disorders suffer from other mental problems which closely ties the disorder to the mind according to www.apa.org, a website built around eating disorder awareness and education. They go on to inform that often times there is some sort of psychological trigger that leads to the disorder. Examples of this would be a death in the…

teenagers includes eating disorders. Anorexia is an eating disorder developed with adolescents who are faced with “perfect” models through the media and magazines. Teenagers often find unhealthy solutions to slim down their body and will go to the extremes such as anorexia (Slater & Tiggemann, 2015, p. 1). These teenagers think that turning to solutions like these will do their bodies well when they do not see the bad effects it has on their body. Anorexia in teenagers is an unhealthy eating…

Andrea has a diagnosis of Binge Eating Disorder. There are several signs that stick out in this case to support the diagnosis of Binge Eating Disorder. To start, Andrea has gained a large amount of weight in a short amount of time, 50 pounds in 6 months to be exact. Andrea can eat excessively at least one time per week and this has been going on for the last 6 months. Binge Eating Disorder consists of gaining a large amount of weight in a small amount of time for at least a time period of 3…

Night eating disorder, also known as night eating syndrome, is a condition where a person will tend to eat at least 25% of their daily calories after they have had their evening meal (hyperphagia ). The condition also results in disturbances in the person’s sleep pattern. A similar condition is sleep related eating disorder (SRED). The difference in the two is that a person with night eating disorder is aware that he or she is waking up and eating throughout the night but a person with SRED…

Andrea Simpson has Binge-Eating Disorder (BED). There are five major criteria that must be met for the Binge-Eating Disorder diagnosis. The first key feature of this diagnosis is that there must be recurrent episodes of binge eating. Binge eating is considered eating food, within 2-hour periods, in larger portions than what most people would eat in the same timeframe as well as having a lack of control over the eating during the episode. The lack of control would be a feeling that one could not…

thought that the map view would be beneficial in explaining how to recover from eating disorders and the steps that are necessary for a healthy recovery. The roadmap is a creative way to engage the audience and teach/inspire people to find ways to recover through diet plans, increasing self-esteem, positive body image, and healthy environments. b) This composition adds specific ways for people who face from eating disorders to return to normal states of health and mind set. The Prezi offers…

Some people claim that the media, biological or genetic and psychological factors are not the main reasons that influence individual to develop an eating disorder. The majority of people today used a different type of media to be informed, for entertainment, interactions, and advertisement. The media portrays a vast majority of information that it is available for the public to watch in the comfort of the homes or base on their own convenience and taste. The general public is free to choose…

In this article "Eating disorders are different in boys and girls", there is a break down on how the gender of a child can make a difference on how eating disorders affect them. Girls are described to link their eating disorder with mood disorder, but it is not the same for boys. While the scholarly article “Disordered Eating Precursors in Pre- and Early Adolescent Girls and Boys”, shows that the initial signs of eating disturbances and how they affect different genders. There are similarities…