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Anorexia Nervosa Katrina Venta PSY 102 Professor Stommel March 26, 2016 Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder that is plaguing the lives of many people. The book states that anorexia nervosa is, "characterized by self-induced starvation and excessive weight loss, to the point that the individual weighs more than 15% below his/her expected healthy body weight. This disorder has the potential to become life-threatening as the resulting malnutrition poses a number of serious health…

Felicia layfulde The Strive For Beauty The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines beauty as, “the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit” (Merriam-Webster). While the Oxford English Dictionary defines the word “beautiful” as “Excelling in the grace of form, charm of coloring, and other qualities, which delight the eye and call forth admiration”(What is beauty and How do we Know It?). However, this definition…

Throwing up constantly can cause destruction to one’s digestive system and can lead to an imbalance in the body, which can affect someone’s heart and other organs. Irregular heartbeats can be a consequence of bulimia and can cause heart problems. From vomiting over and over, a person’s esophagus can become swollen and irritated, and if serious enough, can burst. Just like smoking, this illness can cause tooth yellowing and rotting from the constant abdominal acids from throwing up. Someone…

Body dissatisfaction, or distorted perception of one’s self-image, has become a common problem in today’s society (Ortega-Roldan, 2014). People want to be the skinniest, fittest, and thinnest. Because of this, eating disorders (ED), such as anorexia and bulimia, emerged. Although there are many eating disorders, these are the most common (Walsh, 1998). In short, anorexia is an eating disorder characterized by lack of appetite and weight loss (Lloyd, 2014). Bulimia is a different eating disorder…

The infamous “Pot Belly” term has been used for describing what primarily happens with middle-aged males when they gain excess fat within the lower stomach region. The appearance of a pot belly generally looks as if the abdominal region protrudes away from the body, and is usually rounded as if it were a pot. You could easily have this physical issue happen to you if you have an improper diet, stress too often, overly consume alcohol, live a sedentary lifestyle, and genetics could even play a…

In America, 92% of women have an issue with their body. Many girls worry about the pimples on their face, or the size of their jeans and compare themselves to what they see on TV, on social media, or in magazines. In America we always see Photoshopped images of what the perfect girl should be. Every magazine you see nowadays boasts about their new diets or the best way to shed fat in short amounts of time, constantly seeing that and wondering why you don’t look like that often can have a lasting…

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie gives a wonderful speech on the danger of a Single Story, talking about her own personal experience. She was subjected to years of remarks about her African ethnicity that were down right disrespectful to say the least. Our whole lives we hear stories of a group of people or situations people have gone through, and this causes us to develop as a society a stereotype of these groups. One kind of stereotype society tends to put into one category is the type of people…

“The human body is the best work of art” –Jess C. Scott Nearly every person in America has something about themselves that they don’t like. Whether it’s their smile, their legs, or the way they look in a swimsuit. A person has no trouble overlooking what’s beautiful about them and solely focusing on their flaws. Body image issues have been around for centuries. Women have tried altering their bodies in order to become ‘beautiful’, and most of the time those procedures are in no way healthy. Many…

“‘Quarantine’? What does that mean?” Piccolino Margheri asked, staring at the newspaper article he had just pulled out of his school bag, smuggled from his father that morning. The front page was headlined: ‘Arcea Quarantined! Fifteen Contract the Bern River Virus in Two Weeks!’ “It means that the Prime Minister of Monora has issued the complete isolation of Arcea to prevent the spread of the Bern River Virus. They believe it will spread if it’s not contained,” Piccolino’s classmate, Maylene…

A Likely Story By Jonathan Wilkes The door resisted his shove. Angrily he jammed his shoulder hard against it. It relented with a screech. Inertia threw him forward into the cloud of dust that belched from the dark. Floating particles attacked his eyes and his chest rebuked their advances with an explosive cough. Spluttering, he stepped back. “Who's stupid idea was this anyway” he grumbled. Savagely he snatched at the roll of black bags as they attempted to escape back…