Eating Disorders

Title: Eating Disorders
Category: Literature / English | Words: 1591 | Pages: 6.8 (approximately 235 words/page)

Eating Disorders

8 Million people in the United States alone suffer from an eating disorder. (Tabah) The most common eating disorders are Anorexia Nervosa, and Bulimia Nervosa. It is a myth that anorexia nervosa only occurs in adolescent females, anorexia is reported in both genders, (Winter), from young to old. How young do you ask? Approximately 40% of fourth graders have been on a diet (Tabah) and several 5-6 year olds who have eating disorders (Pelca) People who have eating …showed first 75 words of 1591 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1591 total…vain adolescent girls, and it is the media’s fault.), the main cause of eating disorders is one’s low self esteem. The influences from the people and things people hear and see every day are the cause of one’s self esteem. Family, parents, coaches, and the media deteriorate one’s already low self-esteem, by sending the message to them, they would be better liked, (and excepted in this world) if they were skinnier.

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