Eating Disorders: Unhealthy and Dangerous Maintaining a healthy weight is always a good thing. Usually in efforts to make their bodies look good‚ girls tend to take extremes with either bulimia or anorexia not realizing the dangers‚ and the more effective and healthy ways to look good. Both bulimia and anorexia are medical conditions that take extreme and dangerous routes. In efforts to sell a certain look‚ the media portrays a girl’s beauty in how skinny she is‚ not realizing how many young
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Eating disorder has become a rising concern for adolescences in many countries‚ especially in the United States. According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) eating disorders are more often seen around age of 13 to 17 year olds‚ including “an estimate of 2.7 percent for those suffering from an eating disorder and that girls are more than two and a half times as likely as boys to have an eating disorder” (NIMH‚ 2016). NIMH.gov is a very credible site‚ since the U.S. Department of Health
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Body Fat and Eating Disorders Nutrition 3/27/2013 Thea Leonard Body Fat and Eating Disorders Obesity and eating disorders have become a major problem in the United States. More than one third of U.S. adults are obese (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Excess body fat can present many problems such as heart disease‚ diabetes‚ stroke and even cancer‚ but not only do Americans struggle with obesity they also struggle with eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa‚ bulimia nervosa
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http://www.healthywizard.com/8-Tips-On-Eating-Well http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Goodfood/Pages/eight-tips-healthy-eating.aspx~42.htm www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/ http://www.mdhil.com/8-health-reasons-you-should-never-skip-breakfast/ The 8 Tips for Eating Well 1. Base your meals on starchy foods – an example of starchy foods would be: potato‚ cereal‚ pasta‚ rice and bread. If you choose whole grain varieties they will contain more fibre which is good for you. 2. Eat lots of fruit and vegetables
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Sayers has a sever eating disorder. In her attempts to be the perfect ballerina‚ she is both anorexic and bulimic. She does not eat anything and if she does she later throws it up. For example‚ for breakfast she was forced to eat a grapefruit but is later shown in the bathroom throwing it up. When she gets the part in the play she worked so hard for‚ her mother buys a cake in celebration – only to be put to waste since Nina refuses to eat it. In the movie‚ she provides an example of what can happen when
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Eating Disorders One of the most prevalent disorders amongst the youth of this era is eating disorders. While some overlook it and don’t think it is a problem eating disorders should be given serious consideration. This is because the psychological ramification of eating disorders tends to have lasting effects over the course of the adolescents’ life. An eating disorder is any of various psychological disorders‚ such as anorexia nervosa or bulimia‚ which involves insufficient or excessive
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Eating disorders are considered to be biopsychosocial disorders. When one says biopsychosocial‚ they are referring to the social‚ psychological and biological aspects that are involved and influence the mental and physical health. The biopsychosocial model approach to eating disorders is that there is a relationship between an individual’s social environment (social)‚ their personality and mental health (psychological) and the genetic build (biology). The theory of the biopsychosocial model is
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Americans have been choosing fast food as a replacement for classic homemade meals for many of years. It is fast and convenient‚ but the negative effects outweigh the good effects by a long shot. Eating fast food daily affects Americans’ health‚ diet‚ leaves a hole in their pocket‚ and even changes their everyday mood. The effects might not be seen right away‚ but after time they will start to add up. It has been proved that replacing a homemade meal with fast food has had a huge effect on Americans’
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to escape the daily occurrence of the negative effects and unrealistic display of what defines attractiveness. An immense amount of research is present on ways in which media influences individuals. Some of the research conducted shows a difference in the ways media targets and affects males and females‚ both in separate ways. The research also shows that the effects of media extends to ethnicity‚ and explains what exactly the media is saying. The media depicts “proper” body images differently
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HUMAN BRAIN The brain is one of the largest and most complex organs in the human body. It is made up of more than 100 billion nerves that communicate in trillions of connections called synapses. The human brain is the command centre for the human nervous system. It receives input from the sensory organs and sends output to the muscles. Parts of the Human Brain Ventricles are the 4 cavities in the brain. • The ventricles of the brain are a communicating network of cavities filled with cerebrospinal
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