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girls, eating disorders can affect boys, too. They're so common in the U.S. that 1 or 2 out of every 100 kids will struggle with one, most commonly anorexia or bulimia. Unfortunately, many kids and teens successfully hide eating disorders from their families…

This paper will explore, compare, and contrast the eating disorders anorexia and bulimia and will explain the causes and long term effects of these disorders. The paper will explore the help available to those who suffer with these disorders and the treatments involved helping them recover. I will also explain how I feel about these disorders and how this research has changed my perspective. Eating disorders are often mistaken as a chosen lifestyle, but instead are quite the opposite. These…

strength and the courage to face your eating disorder directly and eliminate it. 1. Talk to family and friends. Find someone who you trust and can really be transparent with. It can be really difficult to carry the emotional stress of an eating disorder by yourself. Whether it's a parent or a best friend, find someone you can talk to about it all. Let…

Dangers of Eating Disorders Eating disorders can be fatal to a person’s health and life. Eating disorders are not just a problem among young people but in some adults as well. Eating disorders aren’t just present in females, they can also be present in males. There isn’t just one, there are many different eating disorders, such as, anorexia, binge eating disorder and bulimia. Eating disorders such as these come with extreme mental and emotional problems. Anorexia is a disorder where a person…

It was the only release I had. It was the only thing that kept me ‘sane’ through everything.” For them it is a way to feel relief. Keeping feelings bottled up inside can be emotionally exhausting and painful. Many people can go to a best friend or family member to vent those feelings, but people with depression often feel like they aren’t important enough to take up someone else’s time talking about their problems, especially someone who is very important to them. For them, self-harm is a way…

For college students in the United States, the act of taking care of one’s health sometimes falls to the bottom of one’s list of priorities as classes, assignments, and extracurricular activities pile up. As a likely result of the stressors in the life of a college student, healthcare for this demographic group has become an area of interest and concern. Among the many medical issues that college students face, eating disorders have dramatically increased their prevalence in some student…

involving the mind. The mind can be easily in overdrive when the person is determined to be successful at a certain task. Many people who suffer from anorexia do not realize how the disorder has affected their lifestyle or body; close friends and family are usually…

In America today we see all kinds of things pointed towards how we are an overweight country and hundreds if not thousands of ways to remedy that issue. But we are failing to see other just as dangerous thing that are happening to the bodies of people today. Those things are also centered around eating but instead of over eating or eating things that are harmful to us. The thing that is just as harmful is the issue of Anorexia and Bulimia both of which is majority ravaging the bodies of teens…

Body Image The perfect body is something that every person wants but very few posses. Many people will do just about anything to either fit in with their community or cover up their insecurities. Women are clearly more obsess with obtaining the perfect body more than men. From an adolescent’s viewpoint, a particular body image can be particularly dangerous because it can lead to a physiological obsession, eating disorders, and physical health consequences (Berger, 2014). Adolescents can…

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…