University of Phoenix PSY 240 November 11‚ 2012 Olivia Fransis Hello‚ my name is Dr. Rachel Green. I am an eating disorder counseling specialist. Today I would like to talk with you about two forms of eating disorders‚ obesity and anorexia nervosa. In our discussion‚ I would like to be able to give you a new perspective on food‚ hunger and satiety hoping that it may benefit those who live with these disorders. Obesity is defined as when a person has maintained a body
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Anorexia Nutrition 05/05/2013 ANOREXIA Troubled teens are very likely to turn to unhealthy lifestyles when they are unable to cope with their problems. Anorexia is among the most common unhealthy lifestyles that troubled teens choose to undertake. Anorexia is a condition classified as an eating disorder – a disorder that involves undertaking abnormal eating habits that are unhealthy to a person’s health. Anorexia is an eating disorder characterized by starvation and insufficient eating. Teen
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The mental health problem that I researched was anorexia nervosa. I had always heard about the eating disorder but I learned a lot of new and surprising things. I always thought that close friends and family members would know right away if a person had anorexia. However‚ I learned that these friends and family members notice that something is wrong as the person develops anorexia. Another thing that I learned is that anorexia nervosa makes people lose more weight than what is considered healthy
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obsessively and develops the condition known as Anorexia Nervosa. Anorexia is an eating disorder in which individuals endure through extreme efforts in order to become thinner. Anorexics tend to prioritize their weight and shape before their health‚ doing whatever it takes to lose weight. People with anorexia have a distorted perception of their body; regardless of how skinny they become‚ they will still view themselves as fat and will
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TOPIC: Anorexic ORGANIZATION PATTERN: Topical GENERAL PURPOSE: Inform SPECIFIC PURPOSE: To Inform the audience of anorexic disease THESIS STATEMENT: Anorexia is an extremely serious disease that strikes a large number of Americans. INTRODUCTION I was Julie’s best friend. I watched her grow from a little girl who doted on by her parents into a tomboy who carried frogs in her pockets. I watched her become a young woman‚ fussing with her hair and trying on every outfit in her closet before her first
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and Effect: Anorexia “I look like a normal‚ well-adjusted 15-year-old high school sophomore. I like talking to friends on the phone‚ riding my bike‚ watching TV‚ and spending time with my boyfriend. I make above average grades and like math and science classes the best. However‚ about a year ago‚ my weight dropped to 72 pounds. I lay in a hospital bed with unkempt hair‚ fragile limbs and a sunken face. I was seriously ill. The villainous disease was not cancer or AIDS. I had anorexia‚ a condition
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Abnormal Psychology Assessment. Abnormal Psychology. For this assignment I have chosen a patient ‘Mary’ who was diagnosed with ‘Anorexia Nervosa’‚ from a clinical placement‚ on an adult acute ward. In order for me to ensure confidentiality has/will be maintained throughout the assignment I have used an assumed name for my selected patient as well as keeping the trust anonymous. The assignment is divided into several different sections‚ the first part will be a description of the disorder‚
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destroying?. In 1684 Anorexia Nervosa was described for the first time‚ but it was not until 1870 that it became identified and described with it’s own diagnosis. The birth of the "new" disease was not only related to the new way to look at medicine‚ but also an effect of the changes in the society‚ and on the new ideal for young women. The history of Anorexia Nervosa is partly an effect of the culture we live in‚ and partly an effect of the social structure in our society. Although Anorexia Nervosa has long
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Models that died from Anorexia Nervosa and eating disorders Ana Carolina Reston She was young‚ happy and beautiful. She was successful in her modelling career‚ walking runways all over the world‚ in various fashion weeks. Her downward spiral into the pit of anorexia began in 2004‚ in China. She was told that she was ‘too fat’ despite being of a healthy weight and height for a working model. Her weight plummeted to 40kg‚ making her Body Mass Index (BMI) an unhealthy 13.4. On the 14th of November
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Eating Disorders: Anorexia Each year millions of people in the United States are affected by serious and sometimes life-threatening eating disorders. The vast majority are adolescents and young adult women. Approximately one percent of adolescents girls develop anorexia nervosa‚ a dangerous condition in which they can literally starve themselves to death. Another two to three percent develop bulimia nervosa‚ a destructive pattern of excessive overeating followed by vomiting or other " purging
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