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In the documentaries What's Eating You - Kristie's Bulimia - Eating Disorder Documentary and Anorexia: A Boy in a Girl’s World, featured by What’s Eating You and BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation). In the first document, What's Eating You - Kristie's Bulimia - Eating Disorder Documentary, thirty-eight-year-old ex-model Kristie’s life as a victim of Anorexia Nervosa. As an Anorexic for twenty-three years, Kristie finally decides to seek help at A New Beginning, a treatment center for eating disorders. Kristie, with the help of Ph.D. clinical psychologist Julie T Anné and Registered Dietitian Brina Jergenson, willpower and support, defeats her illness. Meanwhile the document Anorexia: A Boy in a Girl’s World, teenager Charles struggles with Anorexia and finds treatment in a London Hospital, Royal Free Hospital. He hopes to overcome his disorder and meet and apologize to his friends, who Charles pulled away from. These documentaries show how difficult it is to overcome eating disorders. The documentary What's Eating You - Kristie's Bulimia - Eating Disorder Documentary shows many scenes that relate to pathos. Video footage that makes …show more content…

First, Kristie is obviously shown as an Anorexic. The proof is shown through experience. Also, what is told to the viewers were the names of the Doctor Julie and RD Brina. This all the authority that is shown in this documentary. With research, Doctor Julie Anné is actually a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Co-founder and Director of A New Beginnings, an Eating Disorder Treatment Center. Julie has 26 years of experience, nationally recognized and is frequently featured in the media such as the ABC's Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition, the Medical Advisory Board of EmpowHER Media and, What’s Eating You. Brina Jergenson, with 20 years of experience, is a Registered Dietitian (RD) featured in What’s eating

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Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche begins by discussing the westernization of illness in other countries. The book, which was written by Ethan Watters, gives four examples of the Americanization of illness, discussing anorexia in Hong Kong, PTSD in Sri Lanka, schizophrenia in Zanzibar, and depression in Japan. The first chapter, “The Rise of Anorexia in Hong Kong”, begins with Dr. Lee. Dr. Lee has spent years studying anorexia, and has found the course of the disease has changed throughout history, especially after the introduction of the DSM. In early research, Dr. Lee found that many clients who reported an anorexia- type disease showed physical symptoms, such as stomachaches and feelings of a blocked esophagus.

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This book is written from a very personal standpoint, stemming from her real-life experiences on a topic that changed her life forever. Considering her emotional ties to the subject, she is very resourceful in detailing how she felt during each step of recovery. A corresponding source that demonstrates credibility in a different way is the PBS documentary "Dying to be Thin" directed by Larkin McPhee. This documentary not only presents interviews from people that have overcome eating disorders, but various expert opinions from doctors to further support that it is a matter of grave concern. Because it is supported with a mountain of facts and statistics on top of the collection of personal stories, this documentary is slightly more successful in encapsulating eating disorders and establishing credibility.

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Atul Gawande uses his experiences as a surgical resident to write his article “The Man Who Couldn’t Stop Eating” in the July 9th, 2001 issue of the New Yorker. In this article, he discusses the power of appetite, using a balance between emotional experiences—specifically those of Vincent Caselli—and medical studies, to ultimately educate the public about the costs and benefits of gastric bypass surgery. Before delving into the complexities of the gastric bypass operation, Gawande introduces the story of Vincent Caselli, a man who underwent the procedure after a lifetime of struggling with obesity and his appetite. Gawande informs the readers of Caselli’s development into adulthood specifically showing the effect obesity had on Caselli’s socialization.

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Journalist Karen Lindell is currently a freelance reporter in Pasadena, California. Lindell has written and edited newspapers, magazines, and websites. She has written a newspaper article titled, “The Eating Disorder You’ve Never Heard Of”. It was published in 2014 from an addiction recovery website, The Fix.

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Throughout her career McCurdy dealt with two eating disorders, anorexia and bulimia. Her anorexia was encouraged by her mom, pressuring her into a calorie restrictive diet. While her bulimia was a result of the guilt she felt from eating and the want to fit the childlike and thin mold.) In a study about anorexia and bulimia, written by Ana Gotter she states “ Anorexia often stems from a distorted body image, which may result from emotional trauma, depression, or anxiety. Some people may view extreme dieting or weight loss as a way to regain control in their lives” (Gotter).

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Anorexia applied to every little aspect in her life, which is where it differs from anorexics who are only worried about food. She found herself counting every calorie that came near her body and digging through encyclopedias for every element in her food. Her new coming skinniness didn’t come from her sister’s nickname of “Sister Infinity Fats” that even her parents joined in on, it merely formed on something Jenny considered a hobby. But her “hobby” became more than that after a while, thinking she would be “condemned to hell” for taking up so much room and felt guilty for eating. As Jenny neared college she desperately filled her schedule with every activity she could fit into her schedule from French club to drama club.

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Don’t Blame the Eater: Rebuttal In his article "Don 't Blame the Eater", David Zinczenko discusses that obesity is a grave health issue I the United States of America. He argues that almost all of the kids who eats at fast food joints are more likely to become obese. He then goes on to inform his readers that during his teenage years, he, like many other American kids, was surviving on fast-food due to it accessibility and affordability.

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In the article “The Globalization of Eating Disorders”, Susan Bordo analyzes misconceptions about stereotypes associated with eating disorders. Bordo explains that eating disorders are no longer associated with one particular race, gender, or nationality. He notes that “we are dealing here with a cultural problem. If eating disorders were biochemical, as some claim, how can we account for their gradual ‘spread’ across race, gender, and nationality?” (Bordo 642).

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Susan Ice MD, an expert in eating disorders and medical director of the Renfrew Center in Philadelphia, has lectured about the rise in eating disorders. She explains, "The incidence of eating disorders has doubled since the 1960s and is increasing in younger age groups, in children as young as seven. Forty percent of 9-year-old girls have dieted and even 5-year-olds are concerned about

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They often have an intense fear of fat and gaining weight and often have distorted views of their own body image (Shapiro 2). Thus, they resort to severe food restriction, periods of fasting and even various purging methods for weight loss (Grilo 5). On the other hand, Bulimic patients often binge-eat and then looking for methods to get rid of the food due to guilt by various purging methods (i.e., self-induced vomiting, misuse of laxatives or diuretics and excessive exercise) (Grilo 5). Although many say that the media causes eating disorders, studies have shown that the media is not the main cause of eating disorders. The media does have a part to play in causing the rise in eating disorders in today’s society.

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All of the victims described in the documentary are the normal people who are not really living a normal life, because of certain reasons; they may be family reasons or the reasons that are not even valid for having such a miserable life. The eating disorders may start from the dieting that is so common these days, or they may arise due to the negligence by the family of a person. The different cases and the different individuals described in the documentary are the victims of dieting or the negligence of their families. The lives of these individuals have changed after they have been admitted to the Renfrew, as they are now under the supervision of the professional staff at the Renfrew. They are all from different backgrounds and different cultures, but now they all have to live together and they all have to fight with this disease together.

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