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The Roots of Eating Disorders


            
             The solar system consists of nine planets. Of those nine we inhabit one, the Earth. With a population of over six billion and a total of seven continents there is bound to be a variety of people. Some are light-skinned. Some are dark-skinned. Some are short, and some are tall; the list goes on forever. However, what if one of these differences begins to take precedent over another? As human beings, we have a way of making certain ways of life "more desirable" than others, and we begin to try and achieve these ways of life by altering our own lifestyle. This is especially true when it comes to being thin. All over the world, but especially in America, males and females alike strive each day to achieve this thinness that has taken on such an appeal. Some reach this the healthy way and decide to diet and exercise regularly, and there are some who decided to travel down another road. They begin to change their eating habits, but they do so in a harmful way. This group of people eventually acquires eating disorders that will stay with them the rest of their lives if they are not dealt with. Still, what if there were other reasons why these people develop these unhealthy ways of life? The truth is that eating disorders are complex diseases, and they stem from much more than just a desire to be thin.
             Anorexia Nervosa and Related Eating Disorders Inc., (ANRED) lists eleven factors that play a part in why eating disorders develop: to comfort themselves, to numb emotional pain, to avoid intimacy, to ask for attention, to escape from a demanding world, to express anger, to rebel against authority, to punish themselves, to release tension, to fill empty time, and to give themselves a sense of doing something important (Yancey 26). Not a single one of these factors mentions a desire to be thin. In fact, each one of these factors deals with a psychological dysfunction that a person with an eating disorder may have.


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