"Anorexia Cause And Effect"
Anorexia is a condition that affects every part of you, your body, and your mind. In the world that we live in, where on every magazine cover, every tv show, and even in your home room, you see beautiful, skinny girls that seem to have everything they want. They seem to be popular, always happy, and have the perfect body. Many girls that are just beginning to go through adolescence feel that to be these perfect girls, they have to be skinny. They turn to anorexia. Anorexia is a serious eating disorder, in which girls have an intense fear of becoming fat. Anorexics have a refusal to maintain body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for age and height. Their weight loss leading to maintenance of body weight is below 20% of the expected body weight of healthy individuals at the same age and height. Some anorexics have a distorted body image of themselves, leading them to believe they are fat, even if they are seriously underweight. The physical signs that can be seen or felt are dramatic weight loss in a relatively short period of time, skeletal look, sunken eyes, dry, yellow, or grey skin, thinning hair, hair growth on arms, legs and other body parts in effort to keep heat in, loss of body muscle and fat, dizziness and he
In the case of Christy Henrich, at a 1988 meet, an US judge told her she was "too fat and needed to lose weight if she wanted to make the Olympic Team." She battled anorexia and bulimia for six years. Her lowest weight was 47 pounds. On July 26, 1994, at the age of 22, she died of multiple organ failure at a hospital. Those athletes that are especially at risk are ballet dancers. They have great pressure to have the ballet physique, the look of "the genre of the veritably, the length of the spine, the open stance and the lean look." The young dancer feels if she never has these features, she will never be a great dancer. I know this because I am a dancer as well. All during class dancers are told to hold up their stomachs, so they have a thin profile. Also, they are constantly looking in mirrors and comparing themselves to the other dancers in the class. They are seeing who is thinner than they are, and think they need to lose weight to be the best dancer in the class. The sad thing about anorexia is many never totally overcome it. They may spend time in a hospital at the beginning of their treatment, to gain back lost weight. They have to go to many psychologists and therapists to resolve conflicts and improve self-esteem. Many patients may seem to recover, just to fall back into starving themselves, or other harmful eating patterns. Up to 30% of all anorexics die of complications of the disorder, or from suicide from the depression. With psychiatric help, about 1/3 of all patients overcome this disorder. An important thing for anorexics to remember is that they are not alone. Many normal teenage girls fall into the dangerous disorder of anorexia. It may seem like the famous actresses, models, and those girls in your school have everything, and that t
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