Eating Disorders

Each year in the United States millions of Americans are diagnosed with an eating disorder. The vast majority of these afflicted with eating disorders are females. Many factors contribute to eating disorders including pressure from television, magazines, and athletes, feelings of low self-esteem and powerlessness. Eating disorders are more than abnormal eating habits they are also psychological problems. (Siegal 8). There are two main types of eating disorders: anorexia nervosa, and bulimia, (McCarthy 52). Anorexia nervosa is …

…struggle with the problem, if they get help they will know how to deal with it. From the age of four or five, children start worrying about their looks. From there, it just gets worse. There are pictures of waif like models adorning the covers of every magazine and there are ads all over television telling viewers that their life will be so much better if they get “this” workout machine or try “that” diet.