Eating Disorders

Causes of Eating Disorders
Eating disorders are several types of severe eating illnesses that cause people to maintain focus on only their diet and weight. Some prime examples of eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating. Anorexia nervosa is a type of eating disorder where people are so focused on their weight that they refuse to eat or eat as little as possible, bulimia nervosa is similar to anorexia except instead of eating so little people binge eat and then force themselves to big sick hoping that will help decrease their weight. Binge-eating may not seem as dire as the other eating disorders but it does the same amount of harm, it is when people eat as much as they can whenever they can. There is no specific cause to eating disorders; the causes can vary from genetic factors to cultural pressures. Although lots of research has been done trying to prove that certain things cause more people to have an eating disorder than others nothing has been proven.
One main cause of eating disorders is the family and friend pressure that is constantly on teens these days to be perfect in every way imaginable, including weight-wise. In this current generation of teens they have so much pressure coming at them from all angles, from trying to get all A’s, getting into a good college, sports, and even jobs. Many feel that they are losing control of all things going on in their lives and look to controlling their diet to be able to gain some control of their life. Parents can sometimes add to the fire by making jabs at their teen’s physical appearance whether in a joking matter or not. “Parents that overvalue physical appearance can unwittingly contribute to an eating disorder (ANRED).” There are some statisti...

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...n’t have even thought about. Eating disorders come from many different things but as far as I can tell they don’t seem to come from one main problem. The variety of causes for eating disorders helps people realize that teens have to deal with all types of pressure before they hit adulthood. The effects that come from eating disorders is horrifying to find out.
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