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Eating Disorders Among Athletes
2,017 wordsThe Growing Problem of Eating Disorders Among Athletes Most people would expect athletes to know the latest fitness and health information. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Eating disorders affect male and female athletes all over the world, causing problems in their performance as well as impairing their health. Moreover, pressure from coaches, who should be the most concerned with the health and performance of their athletes, can be the main cause in the development of eating disord...
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Low Self Esteem American Psychiatric Association
1,134 wordsEating disorders are devastating behavioral maladies brought on by a complex interplay of factors, which may include emotional and personality disorders, family pressure, a possible genetic or biologic susceptibility, and a culture in which there is an overabundance of food and an obsession with thinness. Eating disorder also may be defined, as self-abuse. Two of these disorders, anorexia and bulimia, result from the fear or overeating and of gaining weight. This paper talks about what bulimia m...
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Media For Body Image The Cause And Effect
2,088 wordsPicture the world controlled by the media. Could you imagine how ugly, scarce, and hateful it would be. What would you do if a magazine or a television show told you that your body weight had to be twenty pounds lighter to be all most perfect? Would you actually consider the fact or let ignore it? Teens, mainly girls, will be sucked into these magazines. (National Eating Disorders Info Centre 15) These could be magazines like Seventeen and Cosmo Girl. In addition with many others of course. All ...
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Anorexia Nervosa Self Starvation
1,595 wordsAnorexia nervosa is a life threatening eating disorder defined by a refusal to maintain fifteen percent of a normal body weight through self-starvation (NAMI 1). Ninety-five percent of anorexics are women between the ages of twelve and eighteen, however, in the past twenty years, this disorder has become a growing threat to high school and college students (Maloney and Kranz 60). Anorexia produces a multitude of symptoms, and if not treated, anorexia can lead to permanent physical damage or deat...
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People Who Suffer Anorexia And Bulimia
967 wordsEthnography: Image of Perfect One of society's biggest issues is a persons image. People rely so heavily on what they look like. While some spend hours in front of the mirror, or even spend thousands on surgery, others have serious and even fatal clinical problems because of society's image of what is perfect. I chose to write my ethnography on people who suffer from anorexia nervosa and / or bulimia nervosa. My opinion on people who are anorexic or bulimic is that they are somewhat of weak peop...
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Al 2000 P Anorexia And Bulimia
1,345 words... nd to control or advice on their calories intake, thus their children become obese. When parents are around, they usually encourage their children to finish off all the food on their plates even though the children are already full is in fact encouraging them to ignore internal cues to eating. Obese adolescents may overeat as they rely on such external cues and disregarding internal cues to stop. Another reason could also be environmental. Print advertisements and TV commercials encourages p...
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The Disorder Of Anorexia Nervosa
798 wordsAnorexia nervosa, more commonly known simply as anorexia, is a psychological disorder that can have devastating physical affects. Anorexia nervosa is an irrational fear of gaining weight. It causes victims to compulsively starve themselves, and exercise an excessive and unhealthy amount. This disorder is particularly dangerous because it is very difficult to diagnose, and there is no guaranteed cure or treatment because the cause itself is somewhat ambiguous. The vast majority of people who suff...
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Anorexia Nervosa Cognitive Behavioral
660 wordsFamily therapy is treatment of more than one member of a family based on the idea hinting at problems with the way the whole family operates. The anorexic will get better if the family system can change (Marx 198). Family therapy is most useful with the young high-school age anorexic who lives at home (Whitaker 74). Treating the entire family is advisable if the patients appear to be strong enough to adopt a nurturing authoritative posture toward the anorexic in therapy sessions (Levenkron 171)....
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People Who Suffer Eating Disorders
1,638 wordsEating Disorders This paper is about eating disorders, illness / condition , its characteristic features and likely causes. In this paper current treatments for eating disorders and services available in the northern territory will be described. Also I would like to discuss what the likely effect will be on the individual, family and friends. Eating is controlled by many factors, including appetite, food availability, family, peer, and cultural practices, and attempts at voluntary control. [] Ea...
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Analysis Treatment Of Bulimia And Anorexia Part 2
1,791 words... have eating disorders have similar personality traits, including a low self-esteem, feelings of helplessness, and a feeling of becoming fat. In eating disorders, it looks as though eating disorders develop as a way of handling stress and anxieties. Anorexics are usually all around good people. They rarely ever disobey authority, tend to be perfectionists, and are often good students and athletes. It is believed that anorexic people restrict food to feel in control of at least one area of the...
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American Journal Of Psychiatry Bulimia Nervosa
991 wordsBulimia nervosa is defined as two or more episodes of binge eating (rapid consumption of a large amount of food, up to 5, 000 calories) every week for at least three months. The binges are sometimes followed by vomiting or purging and may alternate with compulsive exercise and fasting. The symptoms can develop at any age from early adolescence to 40, but usually become clinically serious in late adolescence. Bulimia is not as dangerous to health as anorexia, but it has many unpleasant physical e...
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Made Me Feel People With Bulimia
1,139 wordsI began binge-eating when I was about seventeen. I was lonely, shy, and lacking in self-esteem. Every binge made me feel worse, and mead me hate myself more. I punished myself with more and more food. Within months I was binge eating as a matter of course, and I gained weight rapidly. I loathed myself and only continued with normal life by pretending to be normal. Bulimia Nervosa is a psychiatric disorder that is characterized by recurrent eating binges that are followed by self-induced vomiting...
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Anorexia Nervosa Eating Disorders
2,294 wordsDuring any given day, the American society is inundated by our perception of the ideal woman. The ideal of a slim and slender body bombards young women on television, in magazines and even while walking across campus of their University. It is this ideal that is prevalent in our society that drives women and some men to starve and deprive their bodies of the necessary nutrients in order to achieve what appears to be most desirable. The motives behind each individual can vary, but most women do t...
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High Blood Pressure Low Self Esteem
2,343 wordsBulimia Eating Disorders Eating Disorders Bulimia is an illness characterized by uncontrolled episodes of overeating usually followed by self-induced vomiting or other purging. Alternative names for Bulimia are Bulimia Nervosa, Binge-Purge Behavior, and also Eating Disorders. In bulimia, eating binges may occur as often as several times a day. Induced vomiting known as purging allows the eating to continue without the weight gain; it may continue until interrupted by sleep, abdominal pain, or th...
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Eating Disorders Eating Disorders Anorexia Nervosa
759 wordsEating Eating Disorders Eating Disorders Eating disorders include extreme emotions, attitudes and behaviors surrounding weight and food issues. Eating disorders are serious emotional and physical problems that can have life-threatening consequences for both males and females (Academy). Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder are the three major and most recognized eating disorders. Anorexia Nervosa is a serious, potentially life-threatening eating disorder characterized by se...
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Anorexia Nervosa Eating Disorders
2,266 wordsIt is not surprising that eating disorders are on the increase due to the value society places on being thin. In modern Western culture, women are given the message at a very young age that in order to be happy and successful, they must be thin. Every time you walk into a store you are surrounded by the images of emaciated models that appear on the front cover of fashion magazines. Women are constantly bombarded with advertisements catering to what is considered desirable. Thousands of women and...
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Low Self Esteem Anorexia And Bulimia
2,605 wordsThe Media and Eating Disorders For most people, eating is one of the simplest pleasures in life. It usually provides nutrients as well as great satisfaction. But for many men, women and adolescents, it is anything but a simple pleasure and can be one of the most excruciating events of a daily routine. These people are not odd, just suffering. Suffering from a complex psychological disorder called an eating disorder, which may appear in the form of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa or obesity. Ob...
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Bulimia Nervosa Eating Habits
1,131 wordsSpecific purpose: I want my audience to understand what bulimia is. Organizational pattern: Cause-effect Introduction I. Attention statement: Nearly half of Americans personally know someone with an eating disorder such as bulimia, according to a recent survey of 1, 264 adults, in the New York Times, by Zogby, published Friday July seventh. In addition the poll states that college graduates are more likely to know someone with an eating disorder (Zogby). II. Orientation phase point: I am going t...
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Theories Of Motivation Anorexia Nervosa
1,509 wordsThe science of Motivation INTRODUCTION The science of motivation is the study of what makes human beings do what they do. Psychologists are interested in finding out what motivates people to do certain things so that they are able to understand and predict and hence, try to control or prevent forms of undesirable behaviour. Motivation refers to an internal process that serves to activate, guide and maintain our behaviour over time (Baron, 1998, p. 382). The scientific study of motivation deals w...
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Point Of View Breaking The Law
2,123 wordsShould The Teenage Years Still Be Referred Should The Teenage Years Still Be Referred To As The Wonder Years? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Go on. ? ? Everybody? s doing it. ? ? It? s only one drink. ? ? You? re such a loser. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? I didn? t know what to do. All these voices were repeating themselves over and over in my head. I didn? t want to give into them because I knew what I was doing was wrong. I didn? t want everyone to think I was scared but what if my parents found out. Why was I here...
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