Eating disorders are a common illness in young women and cause more health issues than they seem to realize. It is found in parents as well as in teens. This disorder is a mental and physical illness that has many women basically killing themselves. This ruins your body inside and out. It’s an illness that basically causes other problems within you not only physically but also emotionally. Don’t really understand why women would want to harm themselves and change how they look by doing something so harsh to their body, when all they are really doing is harming there insides and causing more problems. Eating disorders can cause someone to get a gallbladder disease or heart disease even a kidney failure, Why put your body through all of this harm just to look a certain way, when at the end you’re still not satisfied?
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Eating disorders are a serious illness that disrupts your diet; it affects the amount you eat whether it is in extremely small amounts of food or large amounts. Someone with an eating disorder usually has concerns about their body weight and how they physically look. This disorder mainly appears during someone’s teen years or young adulthood but can also develop during childhood. Some of the common eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder. Also explains (EDNOS) eating disorders not otherwise specified. Binge-eating is a disorder that would be called EDNOS. Eating disorders coexist with illnesses such as depression, substance abuse, or anxiety disorders. There are many more symptoms that can become life-threatening if someone does not receiv...
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Around 90 to 95 percent of cases of anorexia and bulimia nervosa occur in mainly females. Anorexia tends to develop between the ages of 14 and 18; bulimia on the other hand is more likely to develop in late teens or early 20’s.
Giordano, Simona. Understanding Eating Disorders: Conceptual and Ethical Issues in the Treatment of Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa. Oxford: Clarendon, 2005. Print.
This book talks about the different layers in eating disorders. It tells you the different types of eating disorders and what the causes and effects are. The book also explains the possibilities of why eating disorders occur in people and in what type of people they occur in the most. It will also explain why people want to be thin why they are so worried about their body image. Of course it will concentrate on the 2 most common disorders which are anorexia and bulimia.