Causes of Eating Disorders

Introduction

Eating disorders have always existed within human beings. The origin of these behavior syndromes in these disorders of food treatment are related to, family background, life events and cultural pressures. These disorders are increasing in recent years at an alarming rate, especially among the young generations with age between 15 and 24. Becoming thin or having a skinny physical appearance has become the ideal of beauty especially for teenage girls. A number of adolescents seem to be quite concerned regarding their physical appearance, and in order to attain the desired shape individuals take severe that affect their health. This social turmoil is encouraging the emergence of eating disorders that produce severe impact. These disorders are quite common in US and 1 to 2 out of 100 teens have one of these disorders (Abraham, Pp. 8-43). Every year a number of teens have disorders in their eating behavior or weight problems. This paper discusses the causes of eating disorders.

Discussion and Analysis

An eating disorder involves more than simply weight loss diet or exercise every day. This is extreme eating behaviors: for example, diets that never end and gradually become more stringent. It also relates to people who do not go with friends, because they think it is more important to go running to counter as the fresh gets eaten earlier. The widespread eating disorders are bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa, but there are other disorders related to food that are becoming more common as binge eating disorders, body image related phobias or certain foods.

Anorexia:

Individuals with anorexia feel a genuine fright of becoming fat and have a vague picture of the shape and size of their body. This is why they are unable to sustain a body weight that is normal. Several teens with anorexia limit intake of food by excessive exercise, dieting or fasting. Other people with anorexia resort to purging and binge eating: ingest large quantities of foodstuff and after that try to chuck out the calories by inducing vomiting, taking laxatives, by excessive exercising, or a blend of these (Keel & Levitt, Pp. 10-28).

Bulimia:

Bulimia is parallel to anorexia. For bulimia, the sufferer is given great binge eating (overeating) and then tries to compensate with drastic measures for example, excessive exercise or induced vomiting to avoid mass increase. Eventually, this can be risky, both emotionally and physically. It may even direct to compulsive behaviors (i.e. behaviors, which is difficult to avoid). The diagnosis of bulimia is when a person turns to binging and purging regularly, at least twice a week for a couple of months. These binges are not equivalent to situations like going to a party, eating excessive amounts of pizza and the next day decide to go to the gym and eating healthier.

Individuals with bulimia consume great amounts of food at once (usually fast food) and often do it secretly. Often they eat foods that are not cooked or still frozen food. They often sense that they cannot discontinue eating and they just do it when they ...