defines success‚ and what gives us value. ANOREXIA •Underweight •Starvation •Anemia •Unhealthy eating •Anxiety or depression ANOREXIA&BULIMIA •Stopped menstruation •Hair loss •Mostly female •Unhealthy eating •Anxiety or depression BULIMIA •Binge/purge •Normal weight •Bad breath •Unhealthy eating •Anxiety or depression BULIMIA&BINGE EATING •Binge eating •Unhealthy eating •Anxiety or depression BINGE EATING •Obese •Hypertension •Diabetes •Unhealthy eating •Anxiety
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for an eating disorder. As adolescent girls are most likely to have the disorder‚ it suggests that anorexia might be due to fear of increasing sexual desires and starvation is a way to avoid becoming pregnant because one of the symptoms of anorexia nervosa is the absence of a menstrual cycle. Another psychodynamic explanation suggests anorexia is a way to stop sexual development because the anorexic has an unconscious desire to remain pre-pubescent. Their weight loss prevents them from developing the
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Critical Observation Paper Overeating is a problem that affects several people today. Overeating is an eating disorder that causes pain and humiliation to the people who are afflicted by this disease. The general public has come to accept bulimia and anorexia as a condition that cannot be helped by the person who has it. However‚ overeating is still considered to be a weakness by the general population. This makes it even harder for the person who suffers with this to get the help that they need
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Does Tumblr have a negative impact on an adolescent girls psychological wellbeing. Antoinette Capili Since the grand opening of the renowned blogging website‚ Tumblr in 2007‚ there has been an overwhelming “15 billion page views a month” 1. From this time on‚ Tumblr has played a significant role in shaping an individual’s identity and personality towards themselves and society. The Tumblr environment has remarkably transformed the perspectives of adolescents’ own appearance and is one of the
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that anorexia is an extremely serious disease that strikes a large number of Americans. Today I will tell you what anorexia is‚ what causes it‚ and what methods are used to treat it. BODY I. Let’s start by examining what anorexia is. A. Anorexia nervosa‚ one of a number of eating disorders‚ is a disorder of self-starvation. Simply put‚ a person who is anorexic refuses to eat normal amounts of food. 1. An article in Maclean’s states that there are four characteristics of all anorexics: i. (1) refusal
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Weight cutting does not only affect the athlete during the process‚ but can have long term effects on an athlete’s health. Cutting weight is linked to woman having lower estrogen levels which affects long term bone density. One trainer stated that due to constant weight cutting his fighter is unable to avoid injuries because she is prone to broken bones and has constant stress fractures. This has cause the fighter to be withheld from competition for three years in a row with no return in sight. Weight
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It occurs mainly among adolescent girls and young women. The word anorexia means without appetite‚ but anorexics may be extremely hungry most of the time. They avoid food for psychological reasons. The chief physical symptom of anorexia nervosa is severe weight loss. Other symptoms include low blood pressure‚ slow heartbeat and growth of fine hair on the body. The start of puberty may be delayed in adolescents. Female anorexics may not begin to menstruate or their menstrual periods
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Stages of Anorexia. There are four stages of Anorexia‚ according to psychiatrist Steven Levenkron. These stages will help trace and understand how an anorexic thinks‚ feels‚ and changes in personality. Levenkron calls the first stage‚ “The Achievement Stage”. In this stage‚ Anorexia disguises itself as merely a desire to lose weight. This stage does not show any abnormal activity‚ however it gives the idea that there is a boundary that separates a person from society‚ implying the message that
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Anorexia We live in a thin world were skinny models are what some teens and adults look up to. Anorexia is an emotional disorder‚ in which there is an abnormal fear of being fat‚ causing the person to stop eating. Anorexia is an eating disorder that most teenage girls have because‚ they see all those beautiful women on TV who are really skinny and they want to look just like them. Some victims of anorexia excessive or irrational dieting but‚ more frequently‚ they try to hide their disease. Although
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prevent or reduce some of these problems. However‚ binge eating may make it difficult to lose weight and keep it off. Men and Women living with Binge Eating Disorder suffer a combination of symptoms similar to those of Compulsive Overeaters and Bulimia. The sufferer periodically goes on large binges‚ consuming an unusually large quantity of food in a short period of time less than 2 hours uncontrollably‚ eating until they are uncomfortably full. The weight of each individual is usually characterized
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