Risk Factors For Anorexia

“Twenty-five percent of the American population are overweight( they exceed their upper weight limit by at least 15 percent), and studies show that 80-90 percent of teenage girls have made one or more efforts to reduce.” That was just one example which Regina Casper used to make her argument on anorexia and bulimia in the world today.

As of 1999, is still very concerned with eating disorders. She wrote a piece in The Stanford Daily about her concerns. She has also written various articles about different things dealing with women and their health Regina Casper first experienced anorexia nervosa while she was in medical school. She was playing the violin in an orchestra at the Department of Medicine to treat chronically ill patients with anorexia nervosa. She says that as the patients came down the staircase they looked ghostlike. Everyone had one thought “how bizarre.” Regina Casper uses many examples to prove her point on anorexia and eating disorders. She goes as far as using examples about fasting to rats eating “cafeteria” food. In this piece Casper uses many different examples and different areas of these disorders to make her point in informing us about these illnesses. Her thesis is very straight forward, it is her title of the piece. She used that to the best of her advantage, being that the first thing the reader sees is what the whole piece is about and it makes them interested and eager to read more. In this piece, she gets lost in her own words sometimes, but she always finds a way to make it back out with an amazing example to get back on track. In the first few paragraphs Regina Casper explains that there are three different types of eating disorders. She goes into detail about each one and all the symptoms for each. She uses statistics about females and males to help prove her point. On statistic was that ninety-five percent of people with anorexia nervosa are female while only fiver percent are male. She states that in a study on schoolchildren and teenagers, boys or males rarely want to lose weight.

The first reason that Regina states is the conditions germane to our society and culture that tempt people to eat more than they need.