Eating Disorders

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age or race is. They also fail to realize that eating disorders are caused by many contributing factors that affect many people such as depression and changes (Stanley 57).

What are eating disorders?

But, what are eating disorders? Why do they have such negative stigmas attached and associated with them? People once thought of eating disorders as the eating habits of a crazy person. But, that idea was developed during a time when people with eating disorders were shunned, let alone properly treated or studied by health professionals. Scientists and medical professionals are now promoting the idea that eating disorders are nothing like the stereotype that people in the world associate them with. Some medical professionals are now beginning to consider eating disorders as serious mental disorders with physical effects. Other medical officials now think of eating disorders as disordered eating patterns. Some officials use a spectrum of disordered eating to define, diagnose, and ...

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equally severe and fatal forms of disordered eating such as binge eating disorder (BED), yo-yo dieting, and obsessive exercise disorder. People also abuse laxatives and diuretics as a way to lose or control their weight (Kramer 28).

Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexia nervosa is commonly called just anorexia and it the most prevalent eating disorder in America. The term anorexia nervosa was developed in 1873 by Sir William Gull, who was one of Queen Victoria's personal physicians. The word anorexia has Greek origins: a (a, prefix of negation), n (?, link between two vowels) and orexis (??e???, appetite), it means to not to want to eat. (Kramer 45) A person is considered anorexic when they ...

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