anorexia

Eat to Live- don’t live to eat. This is very hard for a person with an eating disorder to understand since food is their tool for handling the stress and anxiety in their lives. Eating disorders affect millions of Americans each year and in some cases causing death. The most common eating disorders are Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia nervosa. These disorders are serious, and, when taken to extremes, can be life threatening as well. All eating disorders arise from a combination, of long-standing psychological, interpersonal, and social conditions several other factors such as family and personal problems, a low self-esteem, and the desire for an “ideal” body may also contribute to the development of an eating disorder.
Men and woman of all ages, races, and incomes get eating disorders. Almost eighty percent of people with eating disorders started with dieting. Experts estimate that one in four college women are bulimic. Did you know ninety percent of woman overestimate their weight and everyday fifty six percent of woman are on a diet. It is also surprising that eating disorders are on the increase because of the value society places on being thin. Women especially are given the message at a very young age in order for them to be happy and successful they have to be thin. Did you also know the average model weighs twenty three percent less than an average woman? One percent of teenage girls in the US develop anorexia nervosa and up to ten percent of those may die as a result.
Anorexia
Finding the information regarding this disease was not hard at all. there are so many people that suffer from this disease that the topic is very well know. I do hope that any one that is suffering with this disease gets the proper help and counseling that is neded before it is to