Eating Disorders
Each year in the United States millions of Americans are diagnosed with an eating disorder. The vast majority of these afflicted with eating disorders are females. Many factors contribute to eating disorders including pressure from television, magazines, and athletes, feelings of low self-esteem and powerlessness. Eating disorders are more than abnormal eating habits they are also psychological problems. (Siegal 8). There are two main types of eating disorders: anorexia nervosa, and bulimia, (McCarthy 52). Anorexia nervosa is self-starvation -- an obsession with thinness. It is a potentially life-threatening disorder that leads a person to refuse to eat enough to maintain a normal body weight. Bulimia is characterized bybinge eating followed by purging. Purging leads to many long-term heath effects. Many different factors cause eating disorders. They are a serious signal that something is wrong psychologically. If an eating disorder goes unnoticed or untreated, it can lead to health problems rang
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