Eating disorders are a group of serious conditions in which
you're so preoccupied with food and weight that you can often focus on little
else. There is no single cause of an eating disorder, but the concern about
their weight and body images are factors of why they get this disorder. Another
cause from this disorder is having cultural or family pressures that get to
them that they are to fat or eating too much. Binging, Anorexia, and Bulimia
are all types of eating disorders that are very serious conditions, but also
you have a choice of having it or not.
You are given the choice of having an eating disorder. No one
forces you to have it, but at the same time its what you want to do with your
life. Eating disorders develop over time, meaning that if they have
acknowledged them starting to have this disorder, they could have a choice of trying
to stop themselves from making it worst. Another reason why you have an eating
disorder is from emotional or mental issues. People with eating disorders might
have an unreasonable and unreal expectation on how they should look.
Having an eating disorder is very serious, but not everyone
thinks it is. People that have this disorder sometimes don’t know how important
it is to have this disorder. This disorder has the highest mortality rate of
any mental illness. People with this disorder need to be more serious if they
have it. Only 1 in 10 men and women with eating disorders received treatment. Not
many people thing that this disorder is a serious problem, but honestly this
disorder is 12 times higher than the death rate associated with all causes of
death for females 15-24 years old. 81% of kids are caring about what they look
like at a very young age of 10.
Lot’s of
people around the world have an eating disorder, but not many people know it.
Right here in the United States alone, has up to 24 million Americans are
affected this eating disorder. Some of the ways you can tell that you have an
eating disorder is by losing your hair, secretive eating, to cold to fast, etc.
Over one-half of teenage girls and nearly one- third boys use of unhealthy weight
control behaviors. Some of the unhealthy weight control behaviors boys and
girls do in order to watch their weights is by skipping meals, so they wouldn’t
think they could get fat.
Having an eating disorder is when you have
Binging, Anorexia, and Bulimia, which are all very serious disorders that you
choose to have or not to have. Millions of people around the world have this
disorder and many of them don’t even know it. Although this disorder is by
choice, we should be more careful of on the things we choose to do, such as not
eating and making your self-purge. Once you know that you are starting to have
different eating habits, you should ask your doctor about it or go online to
search about it. Overall, we should all make the right decisions on eating, and
not care what other people think about the way you look because everyone is
special in their own way.
