Protruding rib cages, frail bones, and thin hair, these symptoms often come to mind for many physicians and therapists alike when they think of someone suffering from an eating disorder. What about overly health conscience, extreme muscle mass, and obsessively exercising? New disorders like Muscle Dysmorphia are being discovered in males that have not been brought to the forefront of news today. The male population is severely under calculated and usually passed over when people cover statistics and findings for eating disorders. This stigma and stance that people have while thinking only females suffer from eating disorders only makes it more difficult for males to admit they have a problem and seek treatment for it before it gets too severe. Men need help too, and other people like authors and medical experts agree. Today more attention is being brought to this issue, not only is the medical world but the public one as well. Popular articles have been published for majority of the public to read in multiple newspapers and prominent magazines such as Cosmopolitan and Gentlemen Quarterly. In the July 2013 Cosmo article, “The Rise Of The Dieting Dude,” author Annie Daly highlights the fact that modern men’s obsession with dieting and their body image is seen as normal even when they go to extreme lengths. Daly includes real examples from men that refuse to eat certain foods and that having obsessive eating habits. The major problem with her article is that some readers left reviews and comments claiming they did not see anything wrong with males that are extreme dieters that spend most of their time at the gym. Today’s skewed views makes people believe that males are supposed to be naturally tall and trim while still being big an... ... middle of paper ... ...attention." San Francisco Gate 21 Oct. 2013: n. pag. SFGate. Web. 4 Nov. 2013. Crisp, Arthur. "1.5. Anorexia Nervosa In Males: Similarities And Differences To Anorexia Nervosa In Females." European Eating Disorders Review 14.3 (2006): 163-167. Discover Galileo. Web. 26 Sept. 2013. Dalgliesh, Jane, and Katherine Nutt. "Treating men with eating disorder in the NHS." Nursing Standard 27.35 (2013): 42-46. Discover Galileo. Web. 22 Sept. 2013. Daly, Annie “The Rise Of The Dieting Dude.” Cosmopolitan 255.1 (2013): 118-120. MasterFILE Elite. Web. 9 Sept. 2013. Penn, Nathaniel. "20% of Anorexics Are Males." Gentleman's Quarterly Sep. 2012: n. pag. GQ Big Issues. Web. 4 Nov. 2013. Russell, Gerald. "Arthur Hamilton Crisp Formerly Professor of Psychiatry, St George’s Hospital Medical School, London." The Psychiatrist 31 (2007): 157-158. The Psychiatrist. Web. 26 Sept. 2013.
What comes to your mind when you hear someone is overweight. In most american’s eyes, it is someone who anyone who is not a model. This creates a huge predicadment counting that America is known to be fat. In the past few decades, lifestyle has changed our habits, but we did not think about the consequences. If we eat more then we must be doing some kind of exercise to counteract what we put inside of us. In the article “America’s War on the Overnight” by Kate Dailey and Abby Ellin, they successfully persuade the reader to tackle obesity, we need to focus more on the subject of obesity and not attack the obese using the rhetorical triangle.
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Many causes are attributed to anorexia, and scientists have studied the personalities, genetics, environments, and biochemistry of people suffering from this disorder. Women most often share various traits--although the more that is learned, the more complex each individual case becomes--low self-esteem, feelings of helplessness, and a fear ...
Body image has primarily been a problem for females. Recently, however, this view has opened up and has been seen in males. While women fixate on looking thin and slim, men’s obsessions are on the opposite spectrum, where guys want to be big, thick, and muscular. First known as "reverse anorexia", and now properly called muscle dysmorphia this obsessive compulsive disorder makes individuals believe that they are small and muscularly undeveloped and meanwhile they are moderately or highly muscular. This disorder is mostly seen in males and is rather unhealthy because it raises potential for self-esteem issues, steroid abuse, anti-social attitude, stress, over-meticulous diets and workout plans, and in worst case scenarios, suicide. In our society ideal body image for males has been put up to an impossible pedestal and the examples for the perfect physique are worsened by media causing this disorder to grow even further.
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These conditions are commonly seen as only affecting females ranging from the middle- to upper-class, and we often imagine sufferers as extremely thin and frail. However, this is an enormous misconception. Although the most common Eating Disorders, Anorexia Nervosa (AN) and Bulimia Nervosa (BN) mostly affect females, an estimated 10 to 15%, or 1-2 in every 100 Anorexics and/or Bulimics are males, and Binge Eating Disorder affects both males and females equally (National Eating Disorders Association).
The female gender is more often linked, as being at risk for eating disorders and this statistic does not change demographically within the aging population with occurrences and/or reoccurrence of eating disorders. Females represent about 90% of eating disorder diagnosis (Patrick, & Stahl, 2009). The percentage of men, including a new sub-category on the brink of being studied, homosexuals who suffer eatin...
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According to “Men’s Makeover” by Kelly Rae Chi, males think of their bodies negatively just like women. They feel worse when working out and eating so they go to the extremes to get muscle and loose weight. Males are using supplement, injecting substances and steroids to alter their selves to fit society. Studies will help to stop future disorders because professionals and guardians may not see them. Social media, models, products increase these negative feelings.