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Eating Disorder

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Essay title: Eating Disorder

Eating disorders are conditions that involve an unhealthy degree of concern about body

weight and shape and that may lead to efforts to control weight by unhealthy means,

examples: of eating disorders are starving , overeating and forcing the stomach to vomit

the food that was eaten . Your body image is how you see yourself, mood , actions and

experiences. People may not feel good about their body image and there where eating

disorders come in, people with low self -esteem wanting to look like models in TV.

What are some common eating disorders? The first common disorder Anorexia

Nervosa, which is a disorder where main the characteristics is restriction of food and

refusing to maintain a normal body weight . They start excluding food with high fat or

caloric content . Anorexics can include vomiting, laxative and excessive exercise. The

bulimic person eats compulsively and then purges through diet pills, strict diets and fast

food .Binges usually consist of consumption of large amount of food in short of time.

Anorexics and bulimics are also obsessively involved with their body

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