We live in a world that which urges people to improve their appearance. The media has supports the idea of "Get rid of all your imperfections, and you’ll be like by all." The debate concerning the unhealthy, thin models is an example of how strongly rooted our idea of "thinness equals happiness" has become.
Eating disorders are diverse and convoluted, and despite research to understand these disorders, the biological, behavioral underpinnings of these illnesses remain ambiguous. Eating disorders are most likely to develop during adolescence or early adulthood of life, but some reports indicate their onset can occur during childhood or later in adulthood. Many adolescents can hide these behaviors from their family for many months and years.
Eating disorders are not due to a failure of will or behavior; rather, they are real, treatable medical illnesses in which certain patterns of eating take on a life of their own. The most common and debilitating types of eating disorders are anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.
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Signs and symptoms frequently develop over a period of years in women and men with certain genetic, emotional or life-experiences. This disorder most often develops in young women during the teenage years, but increasing reports state that symptoms of anorexia and other eating disorders are on the rise in pre-teen girls and boys. To stop from gaining weight, a person with anorexia nervosa will limit food intake or exercise excessively, and may resist to change behavior. Many anorexics purge in private after eating regular meals or engage in binge eating followed soon after by purging. Without proper treatment, anorexia can reduce a person to a point where he or she has exhausted all their fat reserves for energy to nothing but a walking