April's Eating Habits

Anorexia is an emotional and physical illness in which a person refuses to eat. This can be a fatal disorder. The word anorexia means without appetite; nervosa means nervous. Hence, anorexia nervosa is best translated as a nervous loss of appetite. Anorexics are extremely hungry most of the time and extremely underweight, but they refuse to eat because of their fear of gaining weight (Anorexia Nervosa, Wuhl 483). This disorder often includes depression, irritability, withdrawal, and peculiar behaviors such as compulsive rituals, strange eating habits, and division of foods into "good/bad" and "safe/dangerous" categories (Anorexia Nervosa and Related Eating Disorders Inc., Mitchell 11). Dieting may represent avoidance of, or ineffective attempts to cope with the demands of a new life stage such as adolescence (American Academy). For dancers, this eating disorder can be brought on if a dancer changes studios and needs to reestablish her place in the hierarchy. If a

Anyway, I’m getting hungry, let’s grab something to eat,” Charonda suggested. “There is a place next door we can get something quick. Let’s have a light lunch so that we can pig out at Duane’s party tonight. I just love the Caribbean food he serves!” Elizabeth replied. “I’ll order. What do you want?” Charonda asked. “I love cheeseburgers! I gotta watch my weight and my cholesterol level now. Looks like the pounds came on over winter. What are you having? I’ll follow your example, skinny girl,” Elizabeth observed. “Two slices of cheese pizza, a large garden salad, and an iced tea,” Charonda replied. “A diet ice tea, I bet,” remarked Elizabeth. “Nah, artificial sweeteners taste awful,” Charonda replied. “Yeah, nothing like the real stuff. I’ll have the same, but I like spicy. Two slices of pepperoni pizza, a taco salad, and a grape soda for me. I love ranch dressing, but don’t bring any for me … too many calories,” Elizabeth requested. As they sat down to eat, Elizabeth looked around at the other diners and observed. “Crowded huh; salads seem to be popular today.” “Yeah, that time of the year. Doesn’t hurt to lose the few pounds gained over winter—swimsuit season coming up,” Charonda opined. “Looks like I have to do that too. You know, I tried several times to lose weight but it is so hard,” confessed Elizabeth. “Yeah, I know it’s tough,” agreed Charonda. “Look at that lady with the two kids in the corner table. Her plate is loaded with fried chicken and fries and

According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders, Volume 5 (DMS-5), Shelly’s low body weight, her lack of food intake, and her purging were all qualifying symptoms of Anorexia Nervosa. In addition to these symptoms, she exhibited the additional symptom of a fear of gaining weight. She explained to her therapist that she feared weighing as much as her twin sister, even though her sister only weighed 100 pounds.

We the people of Mrs. Lydon's 7th period class are wanting to bring attention to the school board that Turlock High School student are eating in an overly unhealthy manner that is detrimental to their health. Today we will be showing you one of the strengths and one of the weaknesses that are going on in the THS community. We, also, will be proposing a simple fix to this weakness…

Meet Nick. Nick is an 18 year old boy who has always been overweight simply because he liked food. He liked junk food, and all the greasy foods. He did not always have that kind of food, when he was younger, but when he did, it made him happy. During high school, Nick was going through some problems; his parents were getting divorced. Nick was devastated and had a hard time accepting what the new reality was. He tried to be okay with it by portraying a happy face, and shoving his feelings down, but it was too difficult. He did not want to tell his parents that he was having a hard time with the divorce so he tried dealing his feelings on his own, but he could not. So instead, he ate. He ate uncontrollably. At first, he enjoyed eating whatever

Anorexic danger close to dying after weight fell to 35kg, recounts the story of a 20-year-old girl, Korey Baruta and her battle with an eating disorder, anorexia. Korey is a dancer, and constantly receives criticism on her size 10 appearance. The disorder first develops at the age of 15 and lasts for four years, until she is forced to seek help at an eating disorder clinic. Once arriving at the clinic, she is required to immediately transfer to an emergency ward, here she is given a warning on her life. Baruta has lost a large percentage of her body mass, has been diagnosed with “kidney failure, liver problems, and a heart murmur”, due to this loss in weight.

Anita’s tendency to create unreasonable goals in life and tendency to perfectionist behavior, led her to try to do all these tasks at the same time, plus volunteer work and expect maintaining a high performance in all of them, creating excessive worries and fear of failure. All these factors are known to be prevalent among individuals with eating disorders.

Without treatment, Ashley's disorder will worsen over time and possibly cause death (Davis et al., 2014). Although Ashley's treatment will be vigorous work, she is cooperative and wants to comply, so her recovery will be successful. Not to mention, her parents are attempting to make amends for causing Ashley childhood to be difficult, so they are going to be over supportive of Ashley's recovery. Ashley has good judgment and insight, but when it involves insight into the medical problems caused by her low weight she is unaware. If she has nutritional counseling, Ashley will understand the importance of eating proper nutrition. Also, nutritional counseling will explain why she struggles to concentrate and feels wiped out. Ashley might discontinue

Some adolescents have problems with eating. Several teenagers eat a lot (binge eating), and many of them do not eat enough, which leads to anorexia (Rathus, 2016). Anorexia is an eating disorder that causes the body to experience effects similar to malnutrition and can ultimately lead to death. This eating disorder starves the body of from the things it need to regulate and operated of maximum capacity (Rathus, 2016). Eating disorders has led to schools to have adolescent nutritional

When I hear the words “Eating Disorder”, so many things go through my head. A sort of obsession around the topic has plagued my brain since I was thirteen years old. As a twenty-one year old, I can now recognize where it all went wrong, how a lot of minor meal constrictions turned into a full blown illness. As long as I can remember I have always been weird about food, not wanting it to touch, not trying new things or eating anything with sauce on it. When I began eighth grade this became the most apparent. Middle school is a weird time, half of your friends are turning into women, while some are still girls in the eyes of doctors. Regardless, everyone thinks that this time period is the end of the world. During my eighth grade year, my

Eva symptoms consist with the symptoms of anorexia nervosa. The DSM-5 checklist states that significantly low body weight is a symptom. Eva is 10% less than her ideal weight and is making up excuses over her weight. Behaviors that interfere with gaining weight is another symptom and this can be seen by Eva’s extensive periods of exercise. Also she is only eating one meal per day that does not include any food another than fruits and seeds. Eva also shows denial of her current weight. She claims that she does not feel hungry and says that being underweight is the cause of her growing up. Eva symptoms are consistent with the DSM-5 checklist. To help Eva with this disorder, one should suggest cognitive-behavioral therapy and family therapy. Cognitive therapy can help Eva with her distorted perceptions about herself and body. This can help her change her attitudes and thoughts about her weight, body, and herself. Family therapy can help Eva and her family, learn more about her disorder. This therapy can also

Kara knows the importance of eating healthy because good foods keep your body healthy, strong, and energetic. As Kara goes about her day, she chooses healthy food with a reason behind her choice. Not only does she choose something healthy to eat she points out the unhealthy option that she is passing over. Not only is Kara informing the reader about her meal choices, but the author also adds facts that support Kara’s decisions. This text will be used as a read aloud to show the students that making healthy choices is possible. With becoming informed on the importance of eating healthy, the students need to also understand that just knowing is not enough to make a difference. Instead, the students will see the choices Kara makes and organize

Sarah is a sixteen year old girl. She is in the tenth grade and until recently was an optimistic and energetic young girl. Sarah’s mother has began to worry about her lately. Her mother recently found a bottle of diet pills hidden in her room. She has also noticed that Sarah’s behavior has been changing in the past few months. Sarah’s mother is unaware that Sarah’s boyfriend has been reducing her to tears lately by commenting that she has been gaining weight. Her mother has also found her looking in the mirror a lot more than usual. When she looks in the mirror she often sucks in her stomach and is complaining that she is not beautiful. As a result, Sarah has been going off food for days to the point of starvation. Then after days without

Did you know that there are ten year olds drowning themselves out with so much insecurity that they feel the need to starve themselves? One of the single most popular eating disorders is anorexia, which occurs when an individual has an obsessive desire to lose weight by refusing to eat. Therefore, anorexia is a psychological and possibly life threatening disorder that is defined when an individual has an extremely low body weight. Due to our limited knowledge regarding eating disorders, teens are currently putting compact and unhealthy amounts of food into their systems affecting their everyday diet, long and short term health, and body figure.

There is this girl named Sally Princeton. She was a normal little girl, who wanted to be a dancer when she grew up. She decided to take lessons when she was only eight years old. After every lesson, her mother took her to a quick fast food restaurant for a quick meal. Most often they would go to Subway, as it was commonly labeled as a “healthy” fast food place. Seems reasonable, right? It was relatively cheap and it wasn’t too often given the lessons were only twice a week. But then, Sally’s mother noticed that her daughter was gaining weight at a faster pace than most girls, despite the exercise she was getting from her lessons. Soon she was the biggest kid on her team and in her neighborhood. Not only this, Sally was beginning to become fatigued often and get thirsty more than usual. Her mother took her to the doctor assuming the worst, and she was right. Sally now has diabetes as a result of obesity. But whom do we blame for this? Perhaps it’s the fast food industry itself we must look at.