Anorexia Nervosa And Eating Disorders

Anorexia Nervosa
Jennifer Liu, 10/19/12
English, Period 1, Ms.Lambert

Imagine the bell ringing at lunch time, and walking to the cafeteria with a group of friends. Imagine everyone else munching on their sandwiches and eating their desserts. Then imagine yourself, afraid to eat food, afraid to take into your body the necessity of life. You are so afraid of eating food that you starve yourself daily, sticking to your own false impressions that your body is not in good shape. You have a fear every day, the fear of becoming fat. You have Anorexia Nervosa.

What exactly is Anorexia Nervosa? It is an eating disorder characterized by bad eating habits, intense weight loss, and illusions of one’s own body. The people who are thought
Some causes may be a distorted body image that a people start to see of themselves, which causes them to worry about their appearance. In actuality, their body is healthy and fine, even though it appears to look different in a mirror. Also, many girls have an ideal body image of being skinnier, most likely affected by skeleton-skinny models and other people around them. They will start feeling pressured because everyone around them is skinnier, and will want to lose weight to fit in and be popular. They want to meet up to their own (and other people’s) expectations. Because of their desire for “beauty” (because many girls believe the only way to be beautiful is to be skinny), girls will start to become anorexic. The problem for guys is that they want to be built and muscular instead of being big and fat, so they will work out a lot and probably not eat enough nutrition every day, therefore causing them to be anorexic as well. The constant desire for one to have entire control of his/her own body also contributes to the causes of Anorexia. Feeling uncomfortable with their bodies makes many people want to change themselves and how others see them. Another important reason is because of traumatic changes in a person’s life, such as a breakup, death, divorce, or moving to a different home. There are many ways to make people develop Anorexia
From many stories and experiences, it is known that people affected by Anorexia Nervosa tend to hide their behavior and ways of weight loss from their family and friends. But there are ways to tell if a person has Anorexia. One way is if a person seems to be abnormally skinny and has lost an extremely great amount of weight. Another is if one is constantly cold because of lack of body fat, so he/she always wears more than necessary. Another important sign of Anorexia is if menstruation cycles stop or become strangely patterned, signaling that the body is not healthy enough to be working properly. Those affected by Anorexia will have thinner, dryer hair on their heads, and thin hairs will start to grow all over their bodies. They will also experience problems with their gum and teeth. Overall, if one is Anorexic, his/her body will have trouble tweaking its problems and will “malfunction.” That’s why if one sees the first signs of Anorexia, he/she should immediately be aware that the issue is