trying to lose weight but just end up eating without control? Or do you weigh every single day and your mood depends on the numbers? When we focus too much attention on our bodies‚ these preoccupations can possibly severely affect our well-being‚ relationships and personal lives. 2. It is without any doubt that cases of eating disorders have increased since the last half century. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are exactly the main clinical disorders that I want to compare in here. 3
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recommended body weight (according to their age and height). 2. List some medical complications associated with prolonged starvation. Anorexia can come with numerous complications. Death is the worse complication that can occur from the disorder‚ and it doesn’t necessarily have to be caused by being severely under weight‚ it may result form abnormal heart rhythms or an imbalance of electrolytes that maintain the balance of fluids in your body. Complication of Anorexia: ~Death ~Anemia
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Nervosa is an eating disorder that is more than just a problem with food‚ it’s a way of using food‚ or starving oneself to feel more in control of life‚ and to ease tension‚ anger‚ and anxiety. People with anorexia are rarely aware that they have a problem; because this disease is defined by a distorted view of their own body image or weight. A person with anorexia often resists questioning and is extremely secretive‚ usually denying any problem‚ and making excuses for weight loss‚ and eating habits.
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that play with a Barbie doll are shown to having a eating disorder as they grow up. Barbie dolls are bad influences because they lead to eating disorders‚ false hopes‚ and lowers self-esteem. Barbie dolls cause many eating disorders that cause young children to want to lose weight. Around 8 million people in the US have an eating disorder and 80% of those people are females and under the age of 20. Many of these people that have an eating disorder admitted that they worry about their weight at the
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to make an educated decision the way a 25 year old woman would. This is significant because this vulnerable girl may not know how to respond appropriately to things she sees in the media. A prominent example of this is the rising number of eating disorders found in adolescents today. Adolescent females‚ especially‚ view underweight‚ “beautiful” models everywhere they go‚ often unaware that these images have gone through hours of retouching and photoshop before being displayed to the public. These
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Give a short description of the background of the reading and its author. In this article Dr. Abed‚ a consultant psychiatrist‚ provides proposals on how life history theory (LHT) can be applied “to the classification of psychopathology and mental disorder” (Abed‚ 2014‚ p. 301). LHT is a branch of ecology and evolutionary biology; it aims to predict the observed patterns in the life histories of living organisms. This theory was developed to explain the diversity in the life history of living organisms
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CAC – Child & Adolescent Counselling Case Study At a height of 5 feet 7 inches and a weight of 79 pounds‚ Sandy‚ a 17-year-old white female‚ had the look of an emaciated fashion model when she arrived for for the initial assessment. Unlike a model‚ she was dressed in secondhand clothes and worn-out flip-flops‚ which stood in stark contrast to her parent’s more polished professional presentation. Sandy didn’t really think there was anything wrong with her‚ but her parents knew that her current
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girls are described as “delicate”‚ “soft”‚ and “pretty”. Females are encouraged since birth to define themselves in term of their bodies. Many girls and young women aspire to the weight and shape of the super-thin‚ super-pretty fashion models. Eating disorders occur during the adolescent period of girls. Hormonal changes cause an increase in body fat in girls. Given that ads and movies emphasize thinness and beauty many girls become subconscious about their weight and appearence. The media has less
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promising age-defying creams‚ tighter abs‚ flawless skin‚ and a perfect body‚ it is not hard to see why so many women have become ashamed of the body they were given. The media reinforces this notion of thinness‚ and it is evident in the increase of eating disorders not only affecting models‚ but also celebrities‚ athletes and many women across the nation. Not only do we see emaciated models‚ but even mannequins are undersized‚ thus promoting a warped image of what the average woman looks like. The glorification
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Weight cutting does not only affect the athlete during the process‚ but can have long term effects on an athlete’s health. Cutting weight is linked to woman having lower estrogen levels which affects long term bone density. One trainer stated that due to constant weight cutting his fighter is unable to avoid injuries because she is prone to broken bones and has constant stress fractures. This has cause the fighter to be withheld from competition for three years in a row with no return in sight. Weight
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