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“Thump!” I wake as soon as I hit the ground. Groggily I sit up, clutching my bed that I had just fallen out of. I grip my head, a twinge of pain shakes me fully awake. I groan as I push myself to my feet grabbing my dresser as a brace. My leg slips into the leg of my pants. Slowly I finish getting dressed. I head to the kitchen for my wonderful breakfast of dried granola and water. As I munch on my breakfast I listen to the news. “Welcome to channel four news!” A man appears on screen behind…

What happened? Angela was very nervous because she had to be one of the speakers at her graduation and she was afraid, because she had stage fright. In her younger years when she had to speak in front of people she would throw up and have to run to the bathroom. Life changing event? Angela learned that even if she is afraid or scared to complete a hard task, that if she stays strong and doesn't give up on herself, she can accomplish anything. What was the low point? The low point was Angela had…

In the United States one in two hundred women suffer from anorexia, and 10 percent of college students suffer from a clinical eating disorder. These statistics are completely staggering to me. Personally knowing many people, as well as myself, who have struggled with body image issues, it is hard to watch others suffering through it. Women have now started encouraging body positivity to help their fellow women feel comfortable in their own bodies. In the U.S there are many people who are…

Depression has many effects on humans body and social life. Depression affects on human appetite , some people become over eating or dismissing eating completely. this is can cause a loss in weight or a massive gain in weight which lead to diabetes. Eating problems may also lead to stomachaches and malnutrition. Depression may affect also the cardiovascular and immune systems. stress hormones raise the rate o heat beats and make the blood vessels more tight. Putting the body in a long depression…

Eating Disorders What is an eating disorder? you may think it’s something everyone comes upon it sometime in their life. Not, everyone comes upon it. But, there's a lot of people that deals with the suffering and pain of this disorder. In this essay you will learn about, what an eating disorder is, how an eating disorder affects your body, how you can tell is someone is struggling with an eating disorder, and how to help someone with an eating disorder. What is an Eating Disorder?…

A large amount of people are affected with eating disorders for various reasons. “For example, researchers have found differences in patterns of brain activity in women with eating disorders in comparison with healthy women” (“Eating Disorders”). Eating disorders are a serious problem around the globe. To save people’s lives, one will have to work together to educate, use prevention programs, and therapy. The first way to prevent eating disorders is to educate people about it. There is a…

Introduction Anorexia nervosa is a serious psychological disorder that involves extreme desire to lose weight by self-starvation. Anorexia is a life threatening eating disorder associated with an intense fear of gaining weight, and over obsessive tendencies. If allowed to continue, Anorexia nervosa can easily lead to severe physical problems. A review of nearly fifty years of research confirms that anorexia nervosa has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder (Arcelus, Mitchel,…

Embarrassed It happened in the beginning of September 2014 not too long after the school year had just began. I had been having on and off stomach pains for a couple of weeks. I finally decide to go to my mom and tell her I couldn’t take it anymore. We go to emergency and they start running test. That was when I found out I had IBD. The kept me in the hospital for over two weeks. During that time period was one of the hardest times of my life. When I had gotten discharged, I had no idea that…

About 7 million women and 1 million men have an eating disorder in America (anorexia or bulimia) (J, 2011). Some risk factors for developing an eating disorder are biological and psychological predisposition, family dysfunction, and societal and developmental pressure (Silvestri, 2017). In addition to those risk factors an individual may get positive reinforcement from family or friends about their weight and this may lead to perpetuating the poor eating habits. While watching the documentary,…

Anorexia is defined as an unhealthy eating behaviour in which one does to change or maintain their body weight (Filaire et al., 2007; Holm-Denoma et al., 2009). In which it involves behaviors such as making themselves vomit, restricting their calorie intake, as well as the use of laxatives to cause weight loss. (Torstveit et al., 2008; Fortes & Ferreira, 2011). It is suggested that within sport, female athletes are more likely to be affected by eating disorders than that of men due to…