What effects do eating disorders have on a teenagers life? Teens with eating disorders face serious health risks, emotionally and physically. Teens with eating disorders typically face risks to their bones, heart, and even brain in the long term.
The two most common types of eating disorders are anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, most known as anorexia and bulimia. Anorexia has the highest death rate of any psychiatric illness besides depression (“Mirasol Eating Disorder Recovery Center”). Anorexia is an emotional disorder characterized by the obsession to lose weight or to stop eating overall. Bulimia is an emotional disorder involving an obsessive desire to lose weight, in which causes extreme overeating which leads to self-induced vomiting, is also well known as binging and purging (“Mirasol Eating Disorder Recovery Center”). The binge part is where you sit down and eat a lot of food all at once to fill yourself. Purging is when you make yourself vomit, thinking it
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Losing bone mass can cause brittle bones and osteoporosis which again, is a disease in which brittle bones take place and tend to break a lot. “ Osteoporosis is a serial killer. It affects one in three women and one in 12 men - and kills more women than all gynecological cancers put together. Bones get progressively more brittle until they snap and when they do, it's bad news” (“Health, the Dangers of Osteoporosis”) “Broken bones are the only danger. Osteoporosis is a serious and sometimes fatal condition. Osteoporosis leads to hip fractures and, according to Sellmeyer, around 25 percent of people die within the first six to 12 months after a hip fracture” (“Osteoporosis Myths and Bone Health Facts”). So, as you can see osteoporosis is a very serious