Disordered_Eating

Disordered Eating This paper is on disordered eating. It was chosen because disordered eating is an important problem in society today. It is important to research this topic because it is dangerous and research on it can help put an end to it. Each year millions of people in the United States are affected by serious problems with disordered eating. This is an issue with women, although with some men too. There are many reasons a person can have disordered eating, however, most people with eating disorders share certain personality traits, such as low self esteem, feelings of helplessness, and a fear of becoming fat. People practicing professions or activities that stress thinness, like modeling, dancing, gymnastics, wrestling, and long-distance running, are more exposed to disordered eating. Sometimes, the person doesn’t even need to feel fat in order to begin to have eating problems. There may be a feeling of pressure to be thinner from the teacher, or coach. During a study done on ballet dancers to investigate this, 40 female ballet students involved in serious training responded to a statement that read "I think ballet teachers are a source of weight loss pressure for their students." Below the statement was a Likert scale eating, people, disorders, disordered, body, calories, should, serious, ballet, women, very, thin, problem, help, food, one, look, long, exercise, dancers, added, year, week, way, students, sometimes, society, risk, research, problems, pg, person, need, millions, less, leads