Essays Tagged: "eating disorders"
Reviving Ophelia Analysis
who have promiscuous sex, take drugs, smoke cigarettes, and abuse alcohol. She tells of girls with eating disorders, who refuse to go to school, and cut themselves. Dr. Pipher writes that in the begi ... g that happens with the girls has a deeper meaning. For example, if a girl has bad body image or an eating disorder as a result, she must be poisoned by the culture of fashion magazines with skinny mo ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa, medical terminology
ed with the shape and size of their bodies, and suffer harmful, or in this case, fatal effects from eating disorders. At any given time, almost one out of every two women is on some sort of a diet, an ... statistics revel an alarming social problem that is reaching epic proportions.Although the topic of eating disorders has gained a larger audience within the last decade, the number of cases of eating ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Anorexia and bulimia: an overview of the disorder
olved. The food is often just how the problem manifests itself(Levenkron, 164). People will develop eating disorders when they feel they needcontrol. Controlling the body can seem like the ultimate co ... Controlling the body can seem like the ultimate control to the anorexic(Robbins, 33). Families with eating disorders often have dependency patternsthat are unhealthy (Robbins, 33). It isn't uncommon f ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders
Women and the media
matter how unattainable it may be. This need for teenage girls to look like the super models causes eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia and low self-esteem and depression.About one percent o ... ery hundred girls are starving themselves to live up to standards set by the media and our society. Eating disorders mainly affect girls in their teen and twenties, but there have been some cases with ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media
Teenage depression: recognizes the connection between teenage dression and adolescent problems today such as suicide, eating disorders, and pregnacies
mount of adolescent problems. The amount of teenage runaways, alcoholism, drug problems, pregnancy, eating disorders, and suicides are startling. The frequent connection among all these teenagers is o ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues
The medias affect on teens.
affects there look at life. Many teens self body images are affected by the media which can lead to eating disorders and depression.Teens are give in more information about sex by the media then any o ... ng 80% of North American teenage males either diet, work more the 20hrs trying to get hard abs,have eating disorders or take some sort of "Healthy toned body" pills. How often do you see overweight mo ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters
Media influence on Eating disorders
A social issue that continues to cause concern for society is the problem of eating disorders. Eating disorders come in a variety of ways and they can have far reaching affects ... ys and they can have far reaching affects on the physical and mental well being of the sufferer. An Eating Disorder is defined as being any emotional disorder that manifests itself in an irrational cr ... sts itself in an irrational craving for or avoidance of food. In North American there is widespread eating disorders that range from obesity to active starvation. This is particularly worrisome as tee ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Anorxia.
usually depressed, stressed, and have serious anxiety.Because physicians are not required to report eating disorders to health agencies, and people with eating disorders don't like to admit they have ... 4"Waist 29 - 31" 19" 23"Hips 40 - 42" 33" 34"Health magazine, September 1997; and NEDIC, a Canadian eating disorders advocacy groupThere are many psychological aspects that correspond with this diseas ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Anorexia.
Eating - Most people do not give this a second thought. It comes as naturally to most people as brea ... give this a second thought. It comes as naturally to most people as breathing. For others, however, eating is the source of a severe psychological disorder. This disorder is known as anorexia. Accordi ... n between ten and twenty are starving themselves, 8 million people in the United States suffer from eating disorders , and without treatment the death rate is around 20-30% due to complications from t ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Anorexia.
An eating disorder is a way of using food to work out emotional problems. These illnesses develop becau ... out emotional problems. These illnesses develop because of emotional and/or psychological problems. Eating disorders are the way some people deal with stress. In today's media and society, teenagers a ... d into thinking that being thin is the same thing as being happy and beautiful. The two most common eating disorders include anorexia and bulimia nervosa. Anorexia nervosa is a disease in which women ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Athletes and eating disorders.
The Price of Winning; Athletes and Eating DisordersEveryone has seen that gymnast vaulting to great heights or brilliant floor routine ... (What is healthy 3). The strive to be thin, lean and to excel in sports forcing young athletes into eating disorders? The need to look good by having shaped tone body and succeeding in a sport drives ... he need to look good by having shaped tone body and succeeding in a sport drives many athletes into eating disorders. But, resorting to dangerous methods of weight control to try to succeed and win co ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports
Adolescent Self-esteem
ly adulthood, she may be at a greater risk of developing emotional problems, such as depression and eating disorders, that can have serious long-term consequences. A girl's lack of confidence may prev ... major source of unhappiness. Approximately 20 percent of all adolescent girls have highly abnormal eating habits. These pseudo-informative magazines, for example, teach eager and envious girls how to ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters
Women's roles in society, the pressures of being beautiful.
preparing ourselves for this level of competition requires strict training. Excessive exercise and eating disorders are not uncommon to find in women. The blows that women take to their self-esteem b ... images causes a great level of depression. One out of every four college students have some kind of eating disorder. It is said that weight control methods are being used as young as nine years old. 1 ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).
mpulsivity, which is usually self damaging, such as acts of self-mutilation, alcohol or drug abuse, eating disorders and suicide tendencies. BPD's have stormy relationships that are chaotic and intens ... for BPD's are usually made up of medication and therapy. Two of the most common therapies used in treating the illness are Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. From her succe ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders
Anorexia and bulimia.
who spends 45 minutes on the treadmill and then switches to the stair stepper at the rec. On-campus eating disorders are talked about everywhere and yet are not really talked about at all. There is ob ... um. Rules are made of how much food they can eat in one day and how much exercise is required after eating certain amounts of food. With anorexia, there is a strong almost overwhelming fear of putting ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Reaction to Sharlene Hesse-Biber's Am I Thin Enough Yet?
be proposed. Psychology often takes the role of addressing these pressing problems such as suicide, eating disorders, and so forth, but in the search for a solution the field often ignores the wider s ... ociologist, Sharlene Hesse-Biber, tries to do this in her book Am I Thin Enough Yet? She focuses on eating disorders in her studies. She goes beyond the traditional psychological explanations of eatin ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Anorexia and Bulimia
One of the most common problems amongst young people in today's society is eating disorders. The most common eating disorders are anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. As many ... ult years suffer from either anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa. Males are also afflicted by these eating disorders, but at a much lower rate, with a female to male ratio of six to one. Those with an ... ale ratio of six to one. Those with anorexia nervosa refuse to maintain a normal body weight by not eating and have an intense fear of gaining weight. People who suffer from bulimia nervosa go through ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Eating Disorders
Eating disorders develop as outward signs of inner emotional or psychological distress or problems. ... logical distress or problems. They become the way that people cope with difficulties in their life. Eating, or not eating, is used to help block out painful feelings. Without appropriate help and trea ... nful feelings. Without appropriate help and treatment, eating problems may persist throughout life. Eating disorders are complex illnesses where both the disturbed eating pattern as well as the psycho ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Sports & Eating Disorders
oster for girls, being involved in some weight-conscious sports might put teenage girls at risk for eating disorders. But new research shows there are some warning signs that parents and coaches can l ... arents and coaches can look out for.An estimated 1,000,000 teenagers are affected in some way by an eating disorder and almost 90 percent of these teens were female. Although, some males, involved in ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports
Commercials and their affects on Teenagers
men by. Worse yet, these commercials that set a standard contribute to unhealthy practices, such as eating disorders and sexual fixation.How often do we turn on the television and see a beautiful woma ... rcials overestimate their body size. Approximately, seven million women of this 95% are affected by eating disorders. Eating disorders affect people between the ages of 13-18, but recent studies repor ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues