Eating Dsiorders
Located forty minutes west of Cincinnati is Miami University. Only 16,000 students reside at Miami University, yet we boasts two professional basketball players (Wally Szerbiac and Ron Harper), a top twenty hokey team, two consecutive synchronized ice-skating national championships, and who can forget the second most beautiful girls in the nation (according to playboy magazine). However, what we should be rated for is our percentage of students with eating disorders. Every afternoon one may bear witness to dozens of girls, already abnormally thin, running all over campus. If you visit Miami's recreational center, the amount of girls multiplies. While visiting the recreational center one will see countless girls running on the indoor track while on the endless waiting list to use a treadmill. Once finished these women do grab a bite to eat, a piece of fruit, a fat free yogurt, and, if they feel like pigging out, a salad. And even when students return to their dorm they still can't avoid the disorders. While walking through a female corridor one will find room after room with Billy Blanks on the television and Buns or Abs of Steel at work. Unfortunately it doesn't end with this. In the worst cases you may
The first is anorexia nervosa. This illness consists of an individual intentionally losing weight through starvation, well beyond the normal range for their height and build. According to Roslyn B. Binford and Jayne A Fulkerson, authors of Eating Disorders: Summary of Risk Factors, Prevention Programming and Prevention Research, claim, "anorexia nervosa is characterized by refusal to maintain a minimal normal body weight (i.e., below 85% medically ideal body weight), profound fear of weight gain, body image disturbance, and amenorrhea (absence of menses). (p.765) And according to Mark Wiseman, author of Cultural Expectations of Thinness in Women, "anorexia is closely related to obsessive-compulsive disorder as the individual becomes obsessed with creating their "perfect" body" (p.87). The last eating disorder has been tentatively referred to as anorexia athletica, or compulsive over-exercising. An individual with this disorder exercises obsessively and excessively. They follow an extreme workout routine and push themselves beyond their capacity. Workouts are daily and hours on end, leaving inadequate time for muscles to recover. At this point, exercising is no longer enjoyable and has taken over the individual's life. If the individual cannot exercise, even for only one day, they feel guilty and refuse to eat. And as the body produces opiate morphine, as a result of the strenuous exercise over long periods of time, the individual may become "physically dependent on and addicted to these substances, and unable to function without them." (Anorexia Nervosa and Related Eating Disorders, Inc.) It should, because this is Miami University. Although few admit it, this campus
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