eating disorders

Eating disorders are a complex illness that many adolescents have. Numerous people do not see the importance of it. They do not see how many people are actually affected by it. It does not just affect that one person; it affects everyone around them. Eating disorders are caused by stress for many and also cause countless deaths per year. This is an important issue because nobody really seems to care about it, even though it has caused many deaths. Parents are not attentive to their children as they should be. Many people are not aware about eating disorders, so they do not really think about it until something bad happens. Those that support people with this disorder are people that have been through it. They have experienced it and they do not want others to feel the same. Eating disorders are unhealthy for everybody of all ages and can be prevented by increasing awareness and reducing the media’s publication.
Eating disorders are a mental issue that has physical effects. Rodenbough states in the article that “[e]ating disorders are emotional disorders that have psychological, behavioral, social, and physical manifestations, of which body weight is only one.” This means that everything is usually all in there head, an allusion really. There are different types of eating disorders. There is anorexia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, and bulimia nervosa. Anorexia nervosa is the “inadequate food intake leading to a weight that is clearly too low” (Types & Symptoms…Eating Disorders Association).This simply means that the individual typically skips important meals of the day or eat small servings. These individuals usually say they are not hungry so they can get out of eating too much that would cause ‘weight gain’.
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...ir how modeling gets all this criticism, but male sports do not get any. In some sports, there is a weight limit and if the person does not reach the limit, they cannot play the sport, but nobody says anything about that.
Eating disorders need to and can be prevented by reducing the media’s standards and increasing the attention from parents and the awareness around the world. Eating disorders is an important issue because there are many people feeling the same way that could be prevented. Many people with eating disorders feel lonely and ‘parentless’ sometimes and that could lead to a suicide. If parents could be more active with their children and paid more attention to them, these children would not have to feel this way. The world could be a better place if eating disorders were prevented because there would be less deaths and more confident people in the world.