Adolescent_Eating_Disorders

Adolescent Eating Disorders With children as early as age 7 showing dissatisfaction with their body, and as young as 9 starting dieting, eating disorders are a serious issue in our society. Taking a look at perceptions, behaviors, and medical issues associated with the disorders of anorexia and bulimia, scholars have tried to categorize and find answers to the problems which certain adolescents suffer. In this paper I focused on the two major eating disorders of anorexia and bulimia. In 1978, Brunch called anorexia nervosa a “new disease” and noted that the condition seemed to overtake “the daughters of the well-to-do, educated and successful families.” Today it is acknowledged and accepted that anorexia affects more than just one gender or socio-economic class; however, much of the current research is focused on the female gender. “Anorexia nervosa is characterized by extreme dieting, intense fear of gaining weight, and obsessive exercising. The weight loss eventually produces a variety of physical symptoms associated with starvation: sleep disturbance, cessation of menstruation, insensitivity to pain, loss of hair on the head, low blood pressure, a variety of cardiovascular problems and reduced body temperature. Between 10% and 15% of anorexics literally starve themselves eating, weight, disorders, sports, anorexia, bulimia, research, adolescents, chemical, body, seems, school, issues, individuals, healthy, feel, believe, one, look, food, extreme, et, al, about, 2003, while, vomiting, variety, through, thin, self-image, rather, problems, physical, others