... , inconspicuous eating during a binge, termination of such eating episode's by abdominal pain, abnormal sleep, social interruption, or self-induced vomiting. Repeated attempts to lose weight by severely restrictive diets or use of cathartics or diuretics: frequent weight functions greater than ten pounds due to alternative binges and fasts. Awareness that the eating pattern is abnormal and fear of ... and is influences by a variety of genetic, environmental, and psychological factors (Nardo, 1991). Obesity is a complex disorder with multiple factors contributing to weight gain. In some in...

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... support from their own parents, where are they supposed to turn? Unfortunately, most of them turn to food to provide the comfort that their parents are not giving them. The environment outside the home is not exactly a pleasant one for obese children either. Fat children growing up in this culture will be singled out as the subject of many stigmatizing experiences ... called names. Put-downs that refer to a child's size may be heard in the classroom, on the playground, in the gym, in the neighborhood-anywhere children have time and an environment that permits hassling or ridiculing othe...

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... and well-intentioned family. My uncle, who was a healthcare professional, provided his family with all the necessities that children need in their lives in order to grow up in a healthy environment and have many advantages. Lilit, my cousin, is the first child of my uncle. She has a twenty-year-old brother and an eighteen-year-old sister. All our family members ... belief that men are always superior to women. In today's patriarchal society, the gender expectations differ greatly. The culture has made idealized forms of manhood and womanhood, with a set of restrictive expectations that ...

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