Eating Disorders: Obesity‚ Anorexia‚ and Bulimia Obesity in America has become rather traditional for our nation with over 60 percent of adult Americans are overweight and 30 percent actually being considered obese. Obesity is a condition in which an individual weighs 20 percent or more above the desirable weight for his or her height. People try to get rid of excess weight by starving or sweating it off‚ which can lead eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia. Studies have shown that children
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Child and Adolescent Psychology: Body Image and Eating Disorders In Adolescence Alyssa Tremblay Professor Stanford-Pollock December 1‚ 2011 One of the main concerns in teens with poor body image or low self-esteem is eating disorders. There are four major types of eating disorders‚ which include anorexia nervosa‚ bulimia nervosa‚ binge eating disorder‚ and EDNOS. Anorexia nervosa is statistically most common in white or Hispanic girls between the ages of 15 and 23. Although‚ studies
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Binge Eating Disorder Binge Eating Disorder only affects about 5% of the population. Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is an overeating disorder but unlike bulimia nervosa‚ binge eaters don ’t vomit after they binge eat they retain the food they eat. BED is a relatively new disorder as it was just accepted by FDA. Binge Eating Disorder commonly means eating mass amounts of food. Binge Eating Disorder is usual caused by stress or depression. BED is different than bulimia nervosa because binge eaters
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Running head: Binge Eating Disorder Current Diagnosis and Treatment: Binge Eating Disorder February 21‚ 2014 Abnormal Psychology Dr. Jean Nyland Spring‚ 2014 Abstract This paper is a review of the current literature in DSM-5 for how it relates to the diagnosis and treatment of “Binge Eating Disorder” (BED). In the United States BED affects approximately 3.5% of the female‚ and 2% of the male population. This equivocates to a substantial amount of children
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Address the Solution Not the Cause There are many different opinions regarding eating disorders‚ whether they are genetic‚ ethnic‚ cultural problems‚ or a culturally reactive problem. Stereotypes from the past believe that white middle class adolescents have the most related problems in eating disorders because of their anglo-saxon cultural backgrounds. Research has shown that imagery of the ideal Western body has had a chain reaction of body shape and eating habit conflicts between all ethnicities
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Reaching Female College Athletes: Nutrition and Eating Disorders in Female College Athletes Stephanie J. Watson‚ B.S. Indiana State University Nutrition and Eating Disorders in Female College Athletes Athletes tend to be highly competitive‚ highly-achieving‚ and self-disciplined individuals (Mahan and Escott-Stump‚ 2000). Similar personality traits are seen in people with Anorexia Nervosa (AN). A lean body type is associated with enhanced strength and performance in many competitive
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Eating allows all living things to obtain energy. Some people eat less some people eat more. But‚ Imagine not being able to control how much food a person may consume. This is called B.E.D Also known as Binge Eating Disorder. This is a disorder that causes people to eat extremely fast‚ eat beyond being full‚ eat when he/she isn’t hungry‚ and causes people to hide the quantity of food they may have eaten from others. B.E.D is a real medical condition. The cause is unknown. Many people across
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Abstract Eating disorders are common in a culture with being obsessed with body image‚ dieting‚ and fast food (Jacobs‚ C). Dissatisfaction with our body and dieting can often lead to dangerous and unhealthy eating habits. More and more eating habits are patterns leading to eating disorders (Jacobs‚ C). We now are aware of these different types of illnesses; and they are treatable and people are ready to help you (Jacobs‚ C). There are three main types of eating disorders: Anorexia Nervosa
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Negative Body-Image and Eating Disorders According to many doctors‚ eating disorders and negative body-image is increasingly common due to media and the expanding world of fashion. Eating disorders are not just physical but mental‚ as well (Bowen-Woodward). Each person struggling with this type of disease developed a negative body image from somewhere. Family ‚ friends‚ and society contribute to creating a person’s body image‚ whether negative or positive. The effects of a negative body-image
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Eating Disorders: Who is to be held responsible? Abstract Only a thin line separates “normal” dieting from an eating disorder. (Hesse-Biber‚ 1996) Unfortunately for young women in this day and age‚ social and economic factors pressure them to pursue the thinness ideal‚ even to the point of dangerous behavior. At one point in time‚ dieting would have been considered one of the ways to improve one’s health. Today’s society has been brainwashed to believe that in order to be healthy‚ one has to
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