Our three-year-old black Cocker Spaniel had tipped the scales at 32 pounds two weeks earlier but hadn’t touched her food in almost two days. While she needed to get down to around 25 pounds, this clearly wasn’t the way to do it. After examining her, the vet diagnosed the dog as suffering from anorexia. What ...
Working with adolescents for over the 15 years, I quickly learned that many of my students – both boys and girls suffered from some type of eating disorder, such as bulimia and/or anorexia. While eating disorders are most commonly associated with adolescent girls, studies have shown children as young as 5 years-old have expressed an ...
Thinspirations websites, known as pro ana, glamorize the condition of anorexia, by posting diet tips, praising the “beauty” of bone thin girls and ridiculing fat people. the Thinspiration websites often picture well known celebrities, to provide inspiration to emulate them. A look at a random sampling of thinspirations showed Lindsay Lohan, Nicole Ritchie, Keira Knightley, ...
Disordered eating behaviors have been around since ancient times in different cultures. In ancient Greek and Egyptian cultures, people fasted for short periods of time. But records show that there was no prolonged fasting. There was however, self-starvation resembling anorexia in ancient Eastern religion. Another example of this is shown with early Christians. They engaged ...
Anorexia Nervosa is a debilitating and frightening illness where a person may starve to death, desperate to lose weight to the point that some people have cut their own tongues. Others will commit suicide as a result of their plummeting self-esteem and body image. Some will starve to death, if not treated. If their starvation ...
Anorexia is a problem that if frequently seen in teenage girls. There are instances where we also see it in teenage boys and adults of both sexes. These people are obsessed with being thin and no matter how thin they actually are, they continually believe and perceive themselves as being fat. They are literally terrified ...
Anorexia nervosa was first described more than 300 years ago, in 1689, by Richard Morton as a condition of ‘a nervous consumption’ caused by ‘sadness and anxious cares’.[i] Today, this medical condition describes an eating disorder characterized by extremely low weight, a distorted body image, and an intense fear of gaining weight. Statistically, 90-95% of ...
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