Are Looks Worth It?
I was recently coming back from Parris Island, SC on a Greyhound bus when I noticed a young girl around my age sitting next to the window across the isle; she looked a lot like me, tall and slim. I did not think anything of it because I have a very fast metabolism and I eat all the time but can not gain weight. Well we stopped to get food and I noticed that she got stuff from McDonalds and was quietly eating her food. About ten minutes after she got done she ran to the back of the bus and into the bathroom. As she was running back there I heard people shouting gwow she just had to smell the food to pukeh, or gthere are way too many anorexic girls now in the world.h As I was hearing those comments I really wanted to stand up for her, but then I just sat there and thought, what do people think of me when I am eating?
I have been pegged as an anorexic person my whole life. After awhile it actually starts to sound like a cover up when I tell people, no, I am not anorexic I just have a fast metabolism. A metabolism is all the chemical reactions in the body. When you have a fast metabolism, it is like your body is doing a bunch of exercises with out even moving, so your body burns all the fat; the fat which makes you over weight.
People who are overweight and resort to an eating disorder have a hard time loving the person that they really are. There are more people in that
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situation then you actually think. According to Pirtle, a writer from Health magazine, gAccording to conservative estimates, eating disorders affect between 5 million and 10 million young women in the Untied States. This year, at least 50,000 individuals will die as a direct result of an eating disorder.h In my opinion if socie...
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Women in our culture today have developed an obsession with body image and weight that has contributed to the development of eating disorders. The media portrays super-thin models and women take that as the ideal of what they “should” look like. This can have a tremendous impact on their self esteem, and on both the low and high end of the BMI scale, a measure of body fat calculated using your height and weight; whether it be a woman with anorexia, or a woman with obesity. Men also experience this pressure to be muscular and tall, yet it is small compared to what women face. Statistics of college men show that 25% binge eat, 24% diet and 3% purge (Cain, Epler, Steinley, and Sher, 2012). Studies show that people with higher BMI’s experience more body dissatisfaction and and negative body image than people with lower BMI’s (Duncan, al-Nakeeb, and Nevill, 2013). When people feel bad about their body they can experience low self esteem: when a person feels inadequate and lacks respect for the self (Mäkinen, Puukko-Viertomies, Lindberg, Siimes, & Aalberg, 2012). Someone with low self esteem is more at risk for experiencing body dissatisfaction, which can lead to abnormal eating habits (Mäkinen, Puukko-Viertomies, Lindberg, Siimes, & Aalberg, 2012). This can take two forms, dietary restraint and binge eating. High and low BMI has a negative impact on self esteem and body image of women due to the pressure to be perfect in today’s society. The presentation of the following studies of children and adults will seek to understand the differences in men and women and their relationship with BMI, self esteem, and body image through its effect on eating disorders, body dissatisfaction, and the thin-ideal portrayed by the media.
In this report I want to primarily focus on teens with eating disorders and why they have resorted to this way of life. There are a lot of unclear reasoning of why people are inflicting pain, in a sense, upon themselves, but it mostly has to do with these teens self image and confidence, and the dire need to like one of those magazine models. To them thin=pretty+happiness.
While this was a shorter article compared to others available, this one was found to be the most informative and intriguing read unlike others which strived to prove their points through statistics and not actual cases of students with eating disorders. As previously mentioned, eating disorders will continue to consume the minds of those who do not have the confidence to believe that they are beautiful and just fine the way they are. Both articles had two very different approaches to their styles of writing. One focused on analyzing and experimenting on a young girl who only binged at home, while the other focused on students who were starving themselves in a competition to lose weight at school.
Jean Watson, nursing’s living legend, began the development of the Theory of Human Caring/Caring Science over 35 years ago (Clarke, 2016). This theory should serve as a foundation for any personal philosophy of nursing. It reminds us to always treat our patients with love, compassion, and empathy. As caring nurses, we should always anticipate our patients’ needs and try to meet them with kindness and thoughtfulness. When we care, we always treat others with dignity and respect. As healthcare providers, we must always be our patients’ advocate. Additionally, caring means to always fight for our patients’ rights. It also means building a trusting and caring relationships with them. We must be self-aware of any judgmental feelings that could foster their crossing boundaries into intimacy (Lachmann,
All of these eating disorders ordinarily coexist with another type of psychological conditions such as any kind of anxiety disorders, substance abuses, and depression. Although the specific cause is still remains unknown many psychologist speculate that the combination of biological, psychologica...
According to the American National Eating Disorder Association, 42 percent of first to third grade females want to be thinner Over half of teenage females have use troubling weight control methods like fasting, skipping meals, smoking, vomiting, or taking laxatives. The rate of new case eating disorders in Western cultures has been increasing since the 1950s, and today in the US, an estimated 20 million females have suffered from a clinically significant eating disorder at some point in their life. In order to assess the prevalence of eating disorders across cultures we first need to define what they are.
Gurze 2000 Eating Disorders Resource Catalogue, The. 28 Apr. 2000: 24. Ratner, Kathryn M.S.W., L.S.W. “Eating Disorders.” 21 Apr. 2000: 6,7,17.
As a teenager, I have seen a lot of cases of disordered eating at my school. There is that thin girl who is always on diet and another girl who is always eating for no reason. Both cases have internal struggles with self-esteem and lack the ability to face the problem and find an appropriate solution for it. In addition, both cases dislike their bodies and size. They don’t see themselves as beautiful creat...
In the worst case, abortion is a risk to the life of the mother. Abortion can decline the physical health of women. It could impact on females’ health even in the process of abortion. A common example is hemorrhage, which is defined as blood loss during abortion. It is caused by depression, hemophilia (unfrozen blood), or cervical laceration (Kerns, 2012). According to Mesce and Clifton (2011), based on statistics of World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 50% of the abortions performed each year are unsafe abortions, which mean abortion is performed in insecure and life-threatening conditions. Grimes et al. (2006) also support more specific details that the proportion of unsafe abortions has been reported mostly in developing countries, where 98% of abortion-related deaths occur worldwide. Oddly, in their research, abortion is highly restricted by law in these countries, even when it is safely and legally permitted, it is still not easily accessible. However, due to the strictly regulated law, it is almost impossible for women to receive safe abortions, forcing them to choose unsafe methods. Some women have to have self-induce abortions; others have clandestine abortions from medical practitioners, paramedical workers, or even traditional healers. Industrialized nations, on the other hand, has emerged as one of the safest procedures in contemporary medical practice, with minimum morbidity and a negligible risk of death (Grimes et al., 2006). Beside, Mesce and Clifton (2011) point out there are 20% of infertility treatment had a history of abortion. Infertility is often caused by infection after abortion, potentially leading to blockage of the fallopian tube. Abortion also may induce ectopic pregnancy. In the worst case, these risky techniques can even affect the mother’s life. In fact, according to their study, there are about 47,000 deaths in young girls and women due to unsafe
The major concepts of Watson’s theory include caritas processes, transpersonal caring, and the caring moment. (Watson, 2008). Caritas is a term that identifies how nurse approaches their patient and co-workers. Positive “caritas” leads way for developing therapeutic rapport and respect. The second major concept is transpersonal caring. This basically means the connection of the outer and inner body to develop nurse-patient relationship. The last major concept of Watson’s theory is the caring moment. The caring moment happens when the nurse and patient come together with their unique life histories and enters into the human-to human transaction (Watson, 2008). Basically, this is the time the nurse and patient develop a personal relationship that can promote the healing
...ldwide. Thousands of people die every year from eating disorders. Most eating disorders start at a young age. Due to nutritional problems associated with not eating properly, all eating disorders are serious they can also be deadly since it is hard to control them. People with eating disorders may need several years to recover, to recover they must see a therapist, nutritionist and a doctor. (Wilson)