Essays About Eating Disorders

Mass media has a tremendous effect on children’s lives, whether it includes, new fashion trends, premiering movies or social media. One of the impacts is how women perceive their bodies. Movie stars and models feel pressured to catch attention and consistently appear superior in order to maintain their career. Many individuals judge how someone looks […]

To further underscore the findings that women with AN and EDNOS too suffer from co-occurring SUD, it is prudent to survey the Canadian study “Substance use disorders in women with anorexia nervosa” Root, et al. (2009). In this article Root, et al. (2009) choose to focus primarily on these two ED types in particular. The […]

There is an epidemic spreading across the United States. Nearly 8,000,000 Americans are struggling with an eating disorder today, and half of all Americans personally know at least one of these 8,000,000. Not only is this a large section of America, but it’s also a very impressionable one, with 95% of these people being within […]

 Abstract Eating Disorders such as Anorexia Nervosa (AN) and Bulimia Nervosa (BN) typically afflict women from adolescence to their mid twenties (Griffin, 2003). The multifactorial nature of eating disorders include the biological, familial and environmental contributions that differ in each individual (Griffin, 2003). This combination of factors makes it difficult for researchers to pinpoint the […]

Hypothesis: Deficits in mentalization cause the development of eating disorders. Methods: The study relied predominantly on pertinent journals, which were retrieved from pertinent databases that included Pub Med-NCBI (National Center of Biotechnology Information) and Google scholar. Results: Having performed an in-depth analysis of the primary literature, the study established that deficits in mentalization result in the development of eating […]

Introduction One out of each three Americans is fat and two out of each three Americans are overweight. Information from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2009–2010 demonstrated that 18.3% of young people (12– 19 years old) were fat and 32.6% in 20–39-year-olds (Leichiman, 2014). The expansion in the pervasiveness of fatness has all […]

Abstract Hypothesis: Deficits in mentalization cause the development of eating disorders. Methods: The study relied predominantly on pertinent journals, which were retrieved from pertinent databases that included Pub Med-NCBI (National Center of Biotechnology Information) and Google scholar. Results: Having performed an in-depth analysis of the primary literature, the study established that deficits in mentalization result in the development of […]

Introduction Eating disorders are mainly disorders concerning intake of food. These are disorders that are verified in the course of unseemly eating performance which brings about depressing bodily and mind tribulations. On a certain study, consumption disorders are described as physiological and corporeal modifications allied to strings of behavioral disorders.The teenager’s eating disorder has been […]

Introduction In the contemporary society, the population of the offenders continues to rise every day. This leads to myriad challenges which have an effect on the society at large. Mentally ill offenders are still confined in jail. As a result, the correctional officers are assigned the task of offering services to these individuals. Some of […]

A disorder is the inability of mental mechanism to do a natural operation that was designed by evolution. Arco (2015) claims that mental illness involves a variety of mental health disorders or conditions that interfere with mood, behavior, and thinking of individuals. For instance, anxiety disorders, trauma disorders, and Obsessive-compulsive disorders. Anxiety disorders are characterized […]

Kennedy Krieger Institute was established in 1987, aiming at helping both the caregiver and the parent to participate in learning on how to take care and treat the children affected with the feeding disorder. The program on feeding disorder by Kennedy Krieger was among the first to come up with the method of combining the […]

Introduction Authors in different articles based on the topic of discussion have used scale methods to commend on elevated co-morbidity which occurs in between obsessive compulsive and disorders concerned with eating disorder (Fernández-Aranda et al, 2004). Authors have taken some procedures in which root causes of disorders have been evaluated. Most of studies in literature […]

Bruin was born with a hyper desire for food with became more pronounce and grew to become the Restaurant Critic at New York Times. Her relationship with food was one of enemy and friend, that to a great extend seem to influence his relationship. As a matter of fact, eating disorders hinders ability to remain […]

Pharmacotherapy for Cardiovascular Disorders Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death in most of the developed countries and some of the developing countries. The increased cases of obesity and diabetic have not helped the situation either. To curb the deaths caused by the disease scientists have tried to invent various treatment options and some […]

Various factors attribute to eating disorders including biological, psycho-social and social-cultural factors. According to Culbert Racine & Klump (2015), as the number of families increases, genetic and biological factors contribute to eating disorders among the individuals. Certain genotypes are associated with eating disorders and the people who possess those genotypes have a high risk of […]

Eating disorders have been on the increase over the last few years due to poor eating habits. Bulimia nervosa is one of the life-threatening eating disorder which is characterized by a series of bingeing and other behaviors such as vomiting so as to help in eliminating the excess food taken. People with this disorder usually […]

Introduction Various studies in the United States have proved that blindness is the main form of disability and has caused evoke in people’s lives. The number of old people is expected to double as the years go by and in line with this the main causes of visual loss such as glaucomia,cataract and age related […]

According to research done across the globe, binge watching has been a problem in many individuals. Binge watching is described as the habit of watching multiple of television channels all at the same time. Observation concerning binge watching and survey has been done and the come to a reasoning that, this kind of habit by […]

According to Eating Disorders Victoria (EDV) a non-profit organization that offers clinical and non-clinical information service and support for all Eating disorders patients, an eating disorder is neither a diet gone wrong nor a lifestyle choice but a severe mental health condition. Eating disorders are potentially fatal; they require physical and psychological treatment (National Institute […]