Negative Body Image Leads to Eating disorders

Eating disorders
“Many kids — particularly adolescents — are concerned about how they look and can feel self-conscious about their bodies.” Eating disorders have the power to affect everyday life. Not only in just teens but all ages. They are able to cause extreme weight changes. As well as, it could affect your health for the rest of your life. (Source 1) By having an eating disorder everything becomes based off of that, if it isn’t helped or stopped it could become serious and damage your health permanently.
Information:
Someone who has difficulties with any type of eating disorder have negative body imagines. Therefore this person begins to do things that mess with regular body functions and their life. Even though it seems as if eating disorders are always about food and weight they aren’t. More usual than not, it is used to cope with things that person is going through. They take their daily struggles and try to cope with it by an eating disorder, by feeling as I they are in control. Their thoughts begin to endlessly think about exercise, food, or weight. Overall, it is an unhealthy connection with weight and the intake of food that affects multiple zones of someone’s life. (Source 2)
Estimates say that 10 million women and one million men in the US undergo an eating disorder and those numbers are increasing daily. Eating disorders “help” with things such as; emotional pain, conflicts dealing with separation, low self-esteem, depression, or trauma. Although they commonly affect young women, the number of males has increased by over 50% in the last ten years. These disorders are complicated yet very serious. If they are not treated they can cause potential death, physical problems, and mood swings. Although the following list...

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... alone. Therefore she fought it; she had complete hope and overcame it. (Source 5)
Evidence:
During the midst of her beating anorexia, Elizabeth began to write which ended up becoming a published book called “Starving for life”. Along with that, while she was recovering she started to think of ideas for a company which she now calls ED beads and they sell jewelry. The company would give back 50% to NEDA. Starting this year the company is a symbol of her recovery. She dominated this life threatening disease and wrote her own book and started her own company. (Source 5)

Works Cited

http://kidshealth.org/parent/emotions/feelings/eating_disorders.html http://www.anad.org/get-information/about-eating-disorders/general-information/ http://www.eatingdisorderfoundation.org/ http://www.something-fishy.org/dangers/dangers.php http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/learn