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    Eating Disorders Summary

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    Jonathan Cavan’s and Frances Connan’s article, ‘Eating disorders’ (2010), states that eating disorders are commonly found in women and can have a big impact on their physical, social and psychological health and wellbeing. The purpose of the research was to be able to identify a patient with an eating disorder using clinical features, to successfully treat the patient and produce a better outcome. Eating disorders are classified into anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN). The former is…

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    used in the treatment of dropsy and jaundice diseases [Willcox ML et al., 2007].The root is used in the treatment of chronic skin diseases [Chevalier A., 1996, Chopra. R. N. et al. 1986]. The seeds are also useful as demulcent, emetic, expectorant, laxative. It is also used as an antidote in snake poisoning. It is also useful in the treatment of molluscidal and nematocidal activity [Sushma Singh, 1999, S. Sing, 2000],…

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    In the summer of 1793, Yellow Fever was a plague that took thousands of souls of people that lived in Philadelphia. The Yellow fever got to Philly by foreign ships with mosquito that have bread in the cargo areas. People got yellow fever by an infected mosquito. The mosquito got infected by biting people that were already infected. The people that treated the infection were doctors from Philadelphia and French doctors. Both the French and American doctors tried to help all the yellow fever…

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    Yellow Fever snuck up and swept people by their feet to the ground. Truck loads of French and Philadelphia doctors rushed looking for a cure for the inconvenient yellow fever victims. It all started on a serene alluring sunny day spread by infected mosquitos. The horrid disease believed to have been brought by foreign boats and refugees. When it struck another victim it got up to bat and hit a homerun killing every player trying to catch it. Yellow Fever swept away about 2,000-5,000 souls.…

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    Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by a distorted body image that leads to restricted eating and other behavior that prevents a person from gaining weight. Anorexia nervosa is sometimes referred to as anorexia. Anorexia is a form of self-starvation which can be extremely harmful to anyone suffering from this disorder. Scientists do not fully understand the cause of anorexia nervosa. Anorexia usually begins as casual dieting choices, but gradually they lose control and dieting…

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    "Do men and women think in the same way?" I want to do this science fair project because I am interested in how the brain works depending on the gender. I want to know if they think similarly or differently. I also want to know if not only the gender but does the age affect what they think. Stereotypes. We all have to deal with stereotypes at one point. My science fair project this year will have to deal with them. This year I have decided to do my project on whether or not they are…

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    Melting: A Short Story

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    If you think that the word awkward is overestimated… you are wrong. Here we are: I’m shivering, Brian is sitting across from me staring and my friends are joking about my reaction. Heart? Melting. Body? Almost passed out. We are eating the dinner Liz prepared to hit on Kol and they are drinking wine. I am avoiding alcohol, for the safety of my already fucked up mind and hormones. “Em’ knows it better…” Jess says making me get back to planet Earth. “What?” I ask confused. “You know, when we…

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    Seeing as the mental illness that claims the highest mortality is that of eating disorders, Anorexia Nervosa and the current health effects it has will be discussed. Currently in the United States of America it has been estimated that 30 million people have been diagnosed with the disorder known as Anorexia Nervosa (National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders, 2018). Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder in which the person uses self- starvation as a means of reducing…

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    What Is Bulimia?

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    This viscous cycle of binging, purging, and self-loathing is what a person with bulimia struggles with every single day. Bulimia is a psychological eating disorder where a person feels a lack of control during eating binges. A person with bulimia will typically experience an episode of binge eating at least once a week. These binge eating episodes are characterized by eating an amount of food that is larger than what most people would eat in a snack or meal, under similar circumstances. Like…

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    skinny, so they refuse to eat and then become so skinny that it is unhealthy. Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of the eating disorders. Bulimia is when a person eats then takes severe measures to not gain weight such as forced vomiting and laxatives. Binge-eating disorder was a person overeats to excess, for example going to several different restaurants to eat dinner. With binge-eating the person does not purge but instead has extreme guilt about their actions. According to Abnormal…

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