As we know‚ obesity is a serious health problem. It can cause various types of other diseases including heart disease‚ stroke‚ high blood pressure‚ diabetes and so on those will shorter our live. How can obesity cause these types of diseases? That is because cholesterols and fats build up in the wall of arteries and the arteries getting narrower and eventually block by the fats. A doctor took the blood sampling of a obese person who eats fast food everyday. The doctor found that there is a layer
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Cause and Effect of Anorexia Of all girls and women in the United States‚ ten percent will be affected by an eating disorder. Men and women alike are affected‚ however it is more common in women‚ specifically those aged thirteen to twenty. The most common eating disorder among teenage girls is anorexia nervosa. This disease is mostly linked with an overwhelming desire to be thin. People take extreme measures to achieve this goal (“Causes”). Anorexia is a very mysterious and misunderstood disease
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Anorexia in Teenage Girls Adolescence is the most crucial stage of development in which one is mostly influenced by what is seen in society‚ culture‚ and fashion. These influences can lead to eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa. Anorexia Nervosa is a psychological disorder characterized by a fear of weight gain‚ body image issues and maintenance of low body weight (American Psychiatric Association‚1994). On average‚ teenage girls under the ages of twelve to seventeen years old suffer from anorexia
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The biological explanation for Anorexia Nervosa focuses on the role of neurotransmitters. It suggests disturbances in the levels of serotonin and dopamines are characteristic of anorexia. Bailer et al compared serotonin activity in women recovering from restricting anorexia with those recovering from purging type anorexia with a healthy control group. They found that the group recovering from purging type anorexia had higher serotonin activity. They also found the highest levels of serotonin in women
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Anorexia Nervosa Anorexia is a mental disorder found in the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders” book. Anorexia Nervosa starts as weight loss and fear of weight gain in which the individual stops eating due to many different influences. The DSM edition 5 describes the criteria of Anorexia Nervosa as being 3 essential features. The first is “persistent energy intake restriction.” (American Psychiatric Association‚ 2013) This includes weight being below a minimally normal level
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Proctor ENG 090-102 July 15‚ 2013 Anorexia Nervosa vs. Bulimia Nervosa Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa are the most common eating disorders found worldwide. Many people in this world have suffered one or both of these eating disorders. Anorexia and Bulimia occur in both males and females‚ but females are more likely to develop any of these eating disorders. Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa are similar but also different in many ways. Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa typically
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Anorexia nervosa has one of the highest mortality rates of any psychiatric disorder‚ leading to the death of more than 10% of those who suffer from it. This disorder is derived from two Latin words that mean “nervous inability to eat” (Jurma‚ Morariu‚ Albuescu & Velea‚ 2015). Although anorexics have this “nervous inability to eat‚” they do not lack appetites—anorexics starve themselves. Starvation in any situation leads to serious medical consequences. Despite the commonly accepted idea that anorexia
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Obesity looming into a disease Bigger means better. However‚ this saying is not always accepted as true. Take obesity as an example. The bigger you are‚ there is nothing better you get. Obesity is an excess proportion of total body fat. A person is considered obese when his or her weight is 20% or more above normal weight. A person is considered overweight if his/her body mass index is between 25 and 29.9; a person is considered obese if his/ her BMI is over 30 (“What is obesity?”‚ 2013). People
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Public Health Related Problems. OBESITY. . Public health is the science and art of preventing disease‚ prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society‚ organizations‚ public and private‚ communities and individuals. There are different
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What is Obesity? Description Obesity is a condition due to too much body fat‚ not too much muscle. It has been described as when a person has a body weight that greater than what is healthy for their height‚ but does not take into account the added weight of the persons muscle mass (Obesity Patient Education‚ 2013). This increased body fat percentage put one at risk for at least 30 different medical conditions. Often‚ too much
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