Eating Disorder Draft Essay

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.