Eating Disorders On their website, The Eating Disorders Association, a British organization dedicated to providing information on the diseases, defines eating disorders as "complex illnesses where both the disturbed eating pattern as well as the psychological aspects need to be treated." l "FNote1" Eating disorders can affect people of any age, male or female, with no regard to race or ethnicity. ... Eating disorders generally result when people have negative self-images of themselves. ... It is important to distinguish between eating disorders and what the Harvard Eating Disorders Center ca...

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The most common eating disorders presented today in society are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder. ... However, it has been proven that with treatment, individuals who obtained a eating disorder can return to healthier eating habits and stop serious complication they had caused due to the unhealthy eating disorder. ... In order to continuing losing weight and preventing from gaining, people who suffer from this disease have a severely restrict amount of food they are allowed to eat. ... When people struggle with anorexia, they are mostly being distracted from real...

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The best way to impose a healthy attitude about eating and weight is to engage in healthy eating habits, but to not make it an obsession in the house hold and let them know it is OK to eat. ... Nutritionists are occasionally hired to help design a healthy eating plan that the teen can follow. ... These products depict images of people before and after taking a supplement, and how much life has been better for them. This comes into concern with eating disorders because teens will feel that if they were to lose weight or look like the people on these commercials they will be much happier ...

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Large amounts of people are obese, and many suffering from binge eating. ... Subsequently young girls want to look just as "gorgeous" and as "successful" as the famous people portrayed in the media. ... People suffering from anorexia (as well as other eating disorders) will constantly be reminded of this thin image on almost every tabloid, numerous commercials on TV and of course, models in magazines. ... Keel and Klump (2003) mention the diagnostic criteria for bulimia nervosa according to the DSM-IV-TR as 1. eating, in a discrete period of time (e.g., within any 2-hour period) an amount of...

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Psychological disorders cause people have dangerous behaviors, for example, people with eating disorders engage in dangerous eating behaviors or patterns. People who suffer from eating disorders have a negative outlook of their body appearance; therefore, try an attempt to control their weight through exercising and/ or purging. ... Throughout the years, models and celebrities are becoming slimmer and slimmer to try and match this unrealistic cultural standard of what people call beauty. ... Pro-anorexia groups are now moving to more public forums like Facebook to attract more people to join t...

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Young people today are dying to be thin; literally. ... According to the United States National Eating Disorders Association, seventy million people worldwide suffer from an eating disorder. ... Family members also influence adolescents in developing eating disorders. ... Finally, social interaction of adolescents can lead to the development of eating disorders. ... Eating disorders are often developed due to the social pressures of peers. ...

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In a country that spends more than forty billion dollars on dieting supplements a year, it's no surprise that more than ten million people have serious eating disorders. ... Commonly, people link eating disorders to females, and this stereotype is causing serious eating disorders, held by men, to be over looked and to go untreated. It is important to realize that eating disorders create a serious problem in our country and people must also become aware of what causes some people to develop eating disorders. ... To be able to make the answers to this questionnaire fair, I attempted to ...

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Eating disorders develop as outward signs of inner emotional or psychological distress or problems. They become the way that people cope with difficulties in their life. Eating, or not eating, is used to help block out painful feelings. Without appropriate help and treatment, eating problems may persist throughout life. ... Behavior and symptoms that may identify anorexia nervosa are: skipping meals, eating tiny portions, pushing food on plate around, not willing to eat in front of people; using eating rituals; cooking and shopping but not eating; using phrases repeatedly like "I ate already"...

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As a result of this barrage of images, some people feel that they must change to fit these ideals. ... What is an eating disorder? ... (Healthy Devil Online 2000) Bulimia can be defined as a weight control disorder in which people involve themselves in episodes of binge eating followed by purging. ... People who develop bulimia also rely on the control of food and eating as a way of coping with emotional difficulties in their life. Although an eating disorder can be developed by people of any age, race, gender or background, young women are most vulnerable, particularly during adolesc...

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People go to extremes from starving themselves to paying for various cosmetic surgeries. ... One out of four people between the ages of 12-21 have some sort of disordered eating, whether it is anorexia, bulimia, or compulsive over eating (Pipher 1995). ... In a recent edition of People magazine, a researcher analyzed and studied the rise in eating disorders among college campuses, and came up with some surprising conclusions. ... "This situation carries all the dynamics that can also contribute to problem eating", states Elizabeth Vollstadt in her book Teen Eating Disorders. ... These peopl...

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Eating disorders are life-threatening diseases that affect a woman's physical and mental health. Women do not just catch an eating disorder for a period of time and call it a phase. ... Mass media not only motivates the initial development of eating disorders, it supports the maintenance of disordered eating to be continued in women. ... Andrist states that women who may be searching online for help with their eating disorders are just as likely to find pro eating disorder websites, as they are to find help (122). ... Thanks to television, magazines, movies and the internet, rail thin gir...

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The media, such as televisions, internet, and magazines, needs to realize that the advertisements they put out can cause people to develop an eating disorder and we, as buyers, need to take a stand against these types of false advertisements. ... I personally have had two very close people in my life suffer from eating disorders, such as anorexia and bulimia, and I had to watch them harm themselves without being able to stop them. ... I witnessed first-hand how the media causes people to develop eating disorders and how it changes the way people think of themselves. ... We decide how to expe...

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Ever since then, people have debated whether or not we are better off eating only locally grown and produced food, instead of food flown in from around the world. ... Furthermore, people are learning that less processed and more plant based food is another way to maintain better health and a cleaner planet. ... Certain animals, such as cats, which are carnivorous by nature, would simply die if they did not eat meat. ... People may become bored with a lack of variety in their choices or might not have access to enough food. ... Most people who choose to eat at this restaurant and/or follow th...

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They are at risk for developing eating disorders that range from anorexia to bulimia to binge eating disorders. Anorexics and bulimics are generally high achievers, people pleasers and perfectionists and all these traits are synonymous with personality profile of most professional and serious athletes. ... Specifically, in many cases athletes are under more pressure from more people; such as coaches and peers in conjunction with family members, hence putting them at a greater physiological risk to develop an eating disorder. Furthermore, the thin ideal in such sports as gymnastics, figure skat...

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On one hand, Radley Balko, author of "What You Eat Is Your Business," argues that the government shouldn't have any say so on what people choose to eat no matter how fattening it is to the people. ... Banzhaf III author of "Lawsuits Against Fast-Food Restaurants Are an Effective Way to Combat Obesity" argues that although it is the fast food fault that people are becoming obese it is also the people fault that they are becoming obese because they know what they are eating and whether it's healthy or not. ... We also shouldn't blame the fast food corporations ...

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The media constantly dictates the ideal by presenting emaciated models on the covers of Glamour, Teen People, and Cosmopolitan. ... Despite the sudden growth of eating disorders among women, fashion editors deny the notion that magazine advertisements induce strange eating habits among women. ... Eating disorders have an enormous effect on women's lives. ... In a recent telephone poll, People asked 1,000 women about their bodies and how the images of Hollywood's svelte stars influence their self-esteem. ... What women need to realize is that celebrities have hair stylists, personal t...

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Fast food restaurants encourages unhealthy eating habits that result in obesity. ... Consumers eat fast food due to their busy schedules. ... Another survey of 20 consumers revealed that 80% think that public education programs on healthy eating habits would encourage them to eat less fast food. ... Eating fruits and vegetables and also maintaining a healthy diet can protect against many cancers. ... Although Fast food restaurants have shown some improvements in recent years they should to seek provide healthier meals to the public.These strategies will significantly impr...

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Dear Editor, After analyzing Radley Balko's article, "What You Eat Is Your Business," I would like to give my explanation of why this article should be posted in the next edition of "The Shorthorn." ... "What You Eat Is Your Business" provides sufficient reasons and evidence to support the argument that Balko states in his article. ... Balko's opinion in the essay is that people's diets and personal health should be left personal, and that the government needs to find a way to encourage people to live healthy. ... It is not for the government to implement laws that will force p...

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A People Magazine poll conducted in 1999 showed that out of five-hundred college women, fifty-five percent knew someone in college that had an eating disorder, and eleven percent admitted having an eating disorder sometime in their lives (Hubbard). ... Although these are minuscule episodes and happen very sporadically for most people, they are part of our behavior when it comes to the consumption of food. People with eating disorders, in many cases, have learned poor eating habits from family and spouses and with that, usually accompany feelings of guilt (Hawkins 56). ... Everyone's b...

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Watching too much television is unhealthy for young people because of the violent adult programming, the influence on children to mimic the actions they see, and the harmful effects it has on a childs' ability to learn. ... Unfortunately, the television is also unhealthy because it allows children abandon enriching activities such as athletics and reading, in order to waste hours eatting junk food in front of a television set. ...

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One such group is the overweight, they are often judged and looked down upon, but few people understand the different reasons people can be overweight. There are many different causes of obesity, and they can be more complicated than most people think. ... People who exercise little or not at all are more commonly overweight than people who exercise with some regularity. Also people who eat high fat or generally non nutritious foods are more commonly overweight than those who eat a balanced diet. ... Also for the eating disorder to be resolved, the causes of the depression that created th...

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It affects a variety of different people, but generally the victims at highest vulnerability to this disease are female dancers. ... Bulimia is marked by significant cycles in eating habits. ... Bulimics will often refuse to eat in front of other people, and will find any sort of excuse to avoid meals in groups. ... They still must be watched closely at home, and go for specified weighing sessions and psychological evaluations, as people with eating disorders are never truly "cured." ... It is imperative to the health of humanity that people overcome the media-fed images of beauty and perfec...

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Many people know when to eat, what to eat and when to stop eating, however, they just do not care to act on this knowledge. ... (Brown & Casper, 1993) Eating to cope. Many people have recognized the tendency to eat more in response to emotional cues such as feelings of anxiety, agitation, sadness, boredom, loneliness or loss, as a way of attempting to comfort them or as a way of coping. ... If, at the same time, people are responding to inappropriate emotional or social cues for eating, they eventually no longer know when to eat, what to eat or when to stop eating. ... Binge eating is a form...

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There are millions of people who die as a result of malnutrition, just this year 20 million people will die because of malnutrition. Experts have said that "One hundred million people cold be fed using the land free if only Americans reduced their intake of meat by 10 %" Robbins 1). 2) The Environmental argument against meat-eating: A lots of worlds environmental problems could be solved by reduction or elimination of meat-eating including global warming, loss of top soil, loss of rain forests and extinction of species. ... "The risk of contracting breast cancer is 3.8 times greater for wom...

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There is a strong association between eating disorders and depression. ... There is a strong association between eating disorders and depression. ... Possible Signs of an Eating Disorder Arrested growth Change in eating habits Marked weight change Difficulty eating in social settings In ability to gain weight Reluctance to be weighed, Fatigue, Depression or social withdrawal Constipation or diarrhea. ... Still, no one completely understands why or how disordered eating arises in certain people. ... We know that early intervention improves the prognosis for disordered eating. ...

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