Misperceptions about Anorexia Women are consistently the punchline of many jokes‚ regardless of their size. One day‚ a woman decides that she can no longer tolerate the hurtful comments about her being overweight. So she decides to stop eating‚ only to be slammed with similarly hurtful comments such as‚ “she needs to go eat a cheeseburger”‚ “she looks like a pre-pubescent twelve year old boy”. These phrases are apart of a global epidemic showing how unfairly we stigmatize Anorexia Nervosa. We think
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The Battle of Anorexia One CBS News story written by Daniel Schorn tells the story of Kennedy Pieken‚ a girl who was just four years old when she began battling the effects of anorexia. Doctors at the Omaha Children’s Hospital suggest that her eating disorder was triggered by changes in her brain that occurred after she suffered strep throat. It was suspected that the trigger was present through genetics because her mother‚ Jodi Pieken‚ spent
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Biological explanations for anorexia nervosa Biological explanations for anorexia nervosa include neural explanations and evolutionary explanations. 1st BIOLOGICAL EXPLANATION - Neurotransmitters -Serotonin Disturbances in the levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin appear to be a characteristic of individuals with eating disorders. Kaye 2005 found a reduction in the levels of the serotonin metabolite 5-HIAA in people with eating disorders. This suggests that brain serotonin pathways are underactive
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overweight or underweight. Anorexia and obesity are similar in more ways than most people think‚ both can stem from ‘faulty brain wiring’‚ they are dangerous for a person’s health‚ each of them can cause mood disorders‚ and a person’s environment can be to blame for each one. However‚ there are also some major differences‚ with the obvious being that anorexia is when a person starves themselves and obesity is when someone is extremely overweight. The other difference is that anorexia is a disease‚ and obesity
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disorders: Anorexia Nervosa‚ Bulimia Nervosa and ED-NOS (“Eating Disorders Not Otherwise Specified”) (Jacobs‚ C). I will be discussing all three types of eating disorders‚ what they are‚ health complications and how they can be treated. History of Eating Disorders I want to give you a brief history of eating disorders‚ before I start talking about them. In ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and Persian manuscripts‚ there are descriptions of eating disorder very common to what we call anorexia nervosa
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Bulimia Nervosa vs. Anorexia Nervosa Jessica ENG 121 Instructor James Lange June 5‚ 2012 Bulimia Nervosa vs. Anorexia Nervosa “Going to extremes is what sets eating disorders apart from the occasional binge or even yo-yo dieting” (Suszynski‚ 2010) There are many disorders that can be detained in the human body. One of the most common disorders in the U.S.A is eating disorders. Two of the most common eating disorders are Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa. In spite of these two having
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Anorexia Anorexia Nervosa is a disorder where the main characteristic is the restriction of food and the refusal to maintain a minimal normal body weight Anorexics may start by limiting or excluding foods that they perceive as having high fat or caloric content. Once an individual is convinced that anorexia is a good choice for them‚ they will most likely end up on very restricting diets‚ only eating certain foods in a specified portion. (Anorexia Nervosa) Weight is a major concern in today’s world
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History Taking Strategy: Anorexia Nervosa Eating disorders have been popularized by society’s fascination with weight and a thin body. These disorders can be grouped in to three categories: refusing to maintain a minimally normal body weight (anorexia nervosa)‚ eating in binges and then purging (bulimia nervosa)‚ and bingeing without purging. The Merek Manual defines anorexia nervosa as a disorder characterized by a distorted body image‚ and extreme fear of obesity‚ refusal to maintain a minimally
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Garden of Eden and dammed their ancestors. Today a young girl stands in front of a mirror disgusted by what is been reflected upon her. This girls struggle against the disease her primordial ancestor had given her is depicted in Eavan Boland’s poem “Anorexia.” As Boland begins her own demise she is envisioned with the beginning of time where man had not yet fallen and self awareness had not been created; a vision that will consume her to do whatever it takes to go back to Eden. As the speaker stares
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Case Study: April - Anorexia Nervosa XXXX Pennsylvania State University Case Study: April - Anorexia Nervosa Presenting Concerns April was a 17-year-old high school freshman who presented with severe emaciation due to self-starvation and excessive exercise. Despite being severely underweight‚ April indicated an intense fear of gaining weight. She bragged about how much weight she had recently lost‚ though she indicated that her "butt was still too fat." She also reported that she was constantly
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