Bulimia Nervosa Informative Speech Outline

Name: Maria Diaz
Section Number: SPCH 1311
Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa
I. Speech Overview:
A. General Purpose: To Inform.
B. Specific Purpose: By the end of my speech, my audience will have learned two types of eating disorders.
C. Thesis Statement: I will explain two eating disorders which are Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa.
II. Introduction (this is where you start talking):
A. Attention Getting Device: (I will use some controversial pictures dealing and expressing an eating disorder)
B. Tie to Audience: Weight loss has always been a popular trend in society, whether it being for health reasons or just for self-image satisfaction. For instance I’m sure at one point you have thought about your weight in a negative or positive way. Maybe there has been a time where you have really put some thought into the way you look and decided you weren’t happy

But when you’re eating habits take over your life, worrying about what you eat can lead to the preoccupation of being thin which can be a sign of an eating disorder.)
III. Speech Body
A. The first type is Anorexia Nervosa.
1. According to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated disorders “Anorexia is associated by emaciation, a relentless pursuit of thinness and unwillingness to maintain a normal or healthy weight, a distortion of body image and intense fear of gaining weight.” People that have this disorder often do extreme diets and exercise, others make their selves vomit or over use laxatives to lose weight fast.
2. Picture and/or stats slide.
3. People with anorexia see themselves as overweight, even when they have starved themselves and are malnourished. They become obsessed with their weight control, weighing themselves continuously throughout the day; they become very self-conscious of what they eat and limit themselves to small meals or eat only certain