Eating Disorders To Be Thin or To Be Healthy Denise Ahern San Joaquin Delta College Authors Note: This paper was prepared for Psychology 7‚ T-TH 9:30‚ taught by Professor E. Maloney Ed.D To Be Thin or To Be Healthy Society glorifies an image that to be thin is to be beautiful. We emphasize obesity and its affects upon our nation‚ yet we steer clear of the issue of being too thin. Eating Disorders are a concern due to the consequences it has upon a person’s health‚ both physically as well
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The Skinny (and Fat) of Eating Disorders Eating disorders are common in many societies and have been prominent throughout our world’s history. According to professor Merry N. Miller‚ MD‚ the professor and interim chair of the department of psychiatry at the James H. Quillen College of medicine at East Tennessee State University‚ “The history of eating disorders can be traced back to the ancient Greeks and Egyptians” (Pumariega 96). People with eating disorders generally lead miserable‚ unhealthy
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there is a tension that fills the air when one mentions the words eating disorder. The well known facts and horror stories are enough for one to shrink back into an uneasy state when the topic is brought up in conversation‚ and often the topic is quickly changed. Eating disorders are serious life threatening‚ and phycological disorders‚ but contrary to the minimal discussion of eating disorders‚ studies suggest that eating disorders amidst adolescents have steadily increased over the last 50 years
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Cause/Effect Paper: Are Eating Disorders Assisted by Depression? · As a fragile young girl entered the hospital‚ several people stop to stare at her fragile body. As the physicians examine her‚ they begin to realize she hasn’t eaten in days. Several physicians begin to ask her questions concerning her eating behaviors. All she her behavior during the exam they noticed how depressed the girl seemed to be. When the exam was over the girl was immediately admitted to
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Kristina was 10 years old when she was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa‚ and despite some mild childish resistance she had recovered and thought she would never go back to her eating disorder. Little did she know that her eating disorder was biding its time in the dark corners of her own mind. Before the end of middle school she had relapsed. During her freshman year in high school‚ she was hospitalized for 7 months. Over time she began insulating herself from her family and even her closest friends
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In the USA alone‚ up to 30 million people suffer from an eating disorder. That’s probably around 70 million worldwide. Eating disorders are serious and often deadly illnesses that greatly affect a person’s eating behaviors. The most common eating disorders include anorexia nervosa‚ bulimia nervosa‚ and binge-eating disorder. Today I’m going to be talking about these disorders‚ more specifically‚ what they are‚ the symptoms‚ the causes‚ the effects they have on the mind and body‚ and the recovery
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Fashion’s efforts to triggering eating disorders Do you believe that fashion triggers eating disorders? “Specialists in eating disorders warn that the focus on fashion implies that certain illnesses such as anorexia and bulimia are primarily caused by the desire to look like a model” (Kimberly Conniff Timer). On November 14‚ Ana Carolina Reston was only 88 pounds when she died. She was the second model in most recent months to die from an eating disorder. About two years after her very first
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Eating disorder is a disorder that is influenced by culture‚ mind and body shape. Female has a higher rate of suffering eating disorder than that of male. In the modern city‚ people promote the ‘perfect body shape’. This is accompanied with the impact with the psychological matters. Without the correct treatment of the disorder‚ a life-threatening situation to individual is resulted. For anorexia nervosa‚ the person eats nothing beyond minimal amount of food‚ so body weight drops sharply‚ while bulimia
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discussing the issue of eating disorders and how they affect nearly eight million people in the U.S. alone. Out of any other psychological disease‚ eating disorders have the highest mortality rate. This is becoming a much bigger problem than anyone might have anticipated‚ due to the constant references from the media about how being thin is so important. It has also become harder to combat‚ because of the fast food industry. Despite what is common knowledge‚ eating disorders are curable and there are
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Did you know that there are many types of eating disorder? Why is eating disorders impact negatively in our health and also in our lives? Eating disorder involves on weight‚ body shape‚ and foods that can be a dangerous eating behaviors. This signify your body ability the nutrition that it needs and it can harm the digestive system‚ bones‚ teeth and mouth‚ lead to other diseases‚ and effects the heart. Eating disorder can develop at a young age and there are treatments that can return your body
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