Eating_Disorders_In_Women

Eating Disorders In Women Each year, millions of people in the United States are affected by serious and sometimes life-threatening eating disorders. The vast majority of those afflicted with eating disorders are adolescent and young adult women. One reason that women in this age group are particularly vulnerable to eating disorders is their tendency to go on strict diets to achieve an “ideal” figure. Researchers have found that stringent dieting can play a key role in triggering eating disorders. Approximately one percent of adolescent girls develop anorexia nervosa, a dangerous condition in which they can literally starve themselves to death. Another two to three percent of young women develop bulimia nervosa, a destructive pattern of excessive overeating followed by vomiting or other “purging” behaviors to control their weight. These eating disorders also occur in men and older women, but much less frequently. The consequences of eating disorders can be severe. For example, one in ten cases of bulimia leads to death from cardiac arrest or other medical complications, or suicide. Fortunately, increasing awareness of the dangers of eating disorders-sparked by medical studies and extensive media coverage of the illness- has lead many people to eating, disorders, treatment, disorder, bulimia, often, weight, therapy, medical, individual, people, individuals, binge, support, one, issues, food, body, behaviors, women, vomiting, person, normal, nervosa, family, develop, within, suffer, stress, should, self-image, role, purging, purge, problem