Annotated Bibliography On Eating Disorders

Annotated Bibliography
Parks, Peggy J.. Teenage eating disorders. San Diego, CA: ReferencePoint Press, 2012. Print. Park offers a concise, relevant, and conveniently organized collection of information covering a variety of topics. The topics include illegal immigration and deforestation to diseases such as anorexia. Parks also includes many illustrated facts and statistics to display a friendly format. The book offers many facts and information about the eating disorder, but the main project is about a reality check on how dangerous this disorder is and why teenagers develop it. Rather than a typical published print, this text includes a lot of primary source quotes from patients that have gone through this same disorder. It shows a new

This book provides information on what these conditions are, what causes them, how people live with them, and the latest about treatment and prevention. The book focuses on eating disorders as a whole rather than just individual types of disorders. The source is not up to date at it was published six years ago and the statistics have changed and there is now more knowledge on eating disorders such as using neuroimaging to find what triggers eating disorders. The sources cited within the print is based off of other published prints. This print only gives the broad idea and main concept about eating disorders, it does not go into great detail so it was not very useful as a research source. This source is intended for those who is learning about eating disorders for the first time. It also includes a variety of graphs and charts to display different statistics which is designed to be productive and visually entertaining. Lorraine does cover the topic well as it allows the reader to easily find a variety of information on eating disorders that gives very clear and concise explanations with scientific

It also examines how an eating disorder can destroy a healthy body. It discusses the psychological and social aspects of food, the influence of body image on eating habits, and the symptoms of anorexia. It also provides reassurance to those that are very self-conscious with their body image and healthy ways to lose weight. This source is up to date as it was published this year and it is reliable as the sources cited within this print are by many doctors of philosophy. This print was a useful source as it mainly focuses a different aspect of eating disorders which are the treatments. It provides a list of nutrients the body must take in a balanced diet rich in carbohydrates, fat and oils, and proteins. This source is intended for both male and female. It is also intended for teenagers and adults who wants to lose weight in a safe way. Is covers its topic thoroughly as it goes into depth about which food is considered healthy that really is not and it also uses psychological aspects such as Pavlov's theory to better explain why we get hungry at certain