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 …

…