Argumentative Essay About Eating Disorders

Nowadays, when people emphasis more and more on healthy lifestyles, both exercise and food intake have become a big part of the consideration. With the goals of being fit and losing weight, some people eat irregularly or do not eat at all. As a result, eating disorders seem more often on news and reports. However, some people still view it as a joke. With the increasing number of people diagnosed with eating disorders, people should raise awareness on the effects of eating disorders and treat them seriously.

Growing up as an obese child wasn’t something that was easy for me. Anything I did, people always related it to either food or laziness. My classmates in high school had names for me that always hurt my feelings. Going to beaches or public pools wasn’t very pleasing to me as it was to other people, I was always that one awkward person who would jump in the water with full clothes. I was very conscious about my body and worried about what other people thought about me. Whenever it was time to shop for new clothes , I would always return sadly as the clothes I really liked would have neither fit me nor look good on me. I never wore any cotton material clothes as they were very thin and made me look a lot bigger than I really was. One of the hardest

Great choice!” I then proceeded to question you like a drill sergeant. Who taught you about this being fat nonsense? Was it someone in your class? A friend? A parent? Who? Who? Who? You gave an answer I know I forced you into giving: “It was ‘she who shall not be named.’ She said that boys do not like girls who are fat.” OH, GAME ON! The first thing I wanted to do was call your body-shaming Voldemort-esque friend’s mom and tell her the ideas that her daughter has been putting in your head. But, I decided not to be that mom…thank goodness. After talking myself out of becoming THAT mom who other mothers dread talking with, I realized that your friend has three older brothers and is also impressionable in this situation. Nonetheless, I still felt a sense of relief. Thank goodness I could divert the blame from the real source of this cerebral contamination of my SIX-YEAR-OLD daughter. I had my

When she went to stay at her father’s house, instead of her dad cooking homemade meals they turned to fast food instead. Constant unhealthy food caused her to weigh 175 lbs at just 14 years old. She started getting called fat and ugly by classmates causing an even bigger emotional toll on her. In 8th grade, her mother enrolled her in karate to help her lose weight.

I grew up overweight, amidst incessant teasing and judging glances so frequent they felt normal. I knew I was unhealthy. I wanted to improve, and I did try to work out and eat right a lot of times - but to no avail. It never worked. In hindsight, it is clear my failures were because I prioritized health below everything - academics, a social life - you name it. Moving to the US for college, leaving behind a support structure for a foreign culture, I knew I had a fresh start that I could make the most of if I so tried.

Any individual above average size horizontally in Elementary school, knew how it felt to be the obese child growing up. My problem was, I spent practically every day at my grandma’s house, and my size was the evidence. When I was a kid, I'd wish I could be ripped like those men on Hollister bags and stand at least 6’2 with a strong jawline to impress my crushes at school. I’d wish I had a supreme athletic physique with broad shoulders. Regardless of gender, anyone would gaze in envy. However that never came to be my reality. Judging by my intentions,that's most likely a beneficial result; I would have utilized my image to justify arrogance.

An eating disorder is an illness that involves an unhealthy feeling about the food we eat. “Eating disorders affect 5-10 millions Americans and 70 million individuals worldwide” (www.eatingdisorderinfo.org 1). They also affect many people from women, men, children, from all ages and different races. People who have eating disorders usually see themselves as being fat when they really aren’t. This usually deals with women or teenage girls mostly. They watch television, movies, read articles in magazines, and see pictures of the celebrities whom they want to be like because they have the “ideal body” that everyone wants and craves for. The media makes us all think we need those types of bodies to be happy with ourselves, be more successful

But maybe I wasn’t. When I was little, I remember my sisters complaining about being “fat.” My sister said to me, “You’re skinny”, and told me it was probable I would stay that way. I remember telling her I didn’t care, as long as I could be as pretty as she. But that day in the seventh grade and every day after, it was all I wanted.

I feel at times the biggest person on the face of the earth. Whenever I hear some person bring up anything related to obesity, I feel as though they are talking about me. If I happen to come across a news coverage about the epidemic of obesity in the world on the news, such as on WAFB, WBRZ or CNN, I feel as though they are talking about me. In 2015, I came across a show on ABC called “Extreme Weight Loss”. It was a television show in which individuals volunteer to receive training and lifestyle changes from trainer Chris Powell, and his wife Heidi Powell. The show focused on contestants losing a massive amount of weight over a year and having a chance to receive plastic surgery to remove excess skin from their bodies to finish their transformations. As I watched the television show, I noticed a pattern of all the contestants, in addition to them all being overweight, all of them had low self-esteem due to the fact of how they looked. That was the two implements I could relate to. I hate the way that I not only look but feel. There are times when I look in the mirror and hate the person staring back at

Since middle school weight has always been a struggle for me. I was always bullied for being the big kid in the class. It was not until my seventh grade year that my father told me if I drank water and no juice for a whole month straight he would pay me $50. At the time I did not understand why he was challenging me for something like this but why not do it and receive $50. Within that month I had lost 15 pounds. I was shocked because going into the bet I did not realize that I would be losing weight while drinking just water for a month straight. After losing all this weight I was able to maintain it until around the end of my senior year of highschool. This is when I started to become relaxed and not so active like I have been in the past.

Obesity proves to be a continually increasing public health concern. Obesity should be considered a psychosocial concern as well, and yet society continues to place blame on individuals for “eating too much” rather than considering potentially deeper issues. The story about Betty emphasizes the point that there are many factors to consider in the war against obesity.

Grand parents in Nigeria are notorious for over feeding their grand children; over feeding their gran child is a way of showing love. Grandparents in Nigeria loves to cook food saturated with oils, lots of meats and over cooked vegetables which you are forced to eat; subsequently, she developed maladaptive eating habits. Genetic factors and nutrition affected not only Sarah's size but her maturation as well. By eleven years old, she has started to undergo the changes of puberty not only in height, but size as well. According to Berk (2013), girls accumulate fat at a faster rate, but will even out during adolescence. Sarah's fat did not even out her fat to muscle ratio was significantly higher in the fat . As she gets older, she started withdrawing from social activities due to being teased, picked on and rejected by her peers. While it may be comforting for her parents to know that children come in different sizes and shapes, it was not comforting to Sarah. She started comparing herself to her peers and it bothered her a lot that she does not have the same slim physique like her peers. According to Beck (2013), overweight children tend to have overweight parent and low SES (social economic status) in industrialized countries seen within the African-American, Hispanic, and Native-American children. In the case of Sarah, her parents are slim and they are not poor by no means. According to Ogden et all., (2014), the implication of Sarah's weight is that she is more than likely to have risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, bone and joints problems, sleep apnea and social and psychological problems such as stigmatization and poor

Now that it has been proven that the thin ideal is being pushed on children, children as young as 5, one should know the possibly consequences of its exposure. When children are constantly being shown one certain ideal, it soon becomes internalize, which leads to behaviors that often go unnoticed by parents. While these behaviors may seem harmless at first glance, they can be part of a bigger unhealthier problem. In a study were young girls played with dolls with different body proportions, and then were given snacks to eat, this was the result, “they ate less food when they played with the thin dolls than when they played with the average sized doll.” (Anschutz et al) The girls were left alone with snacks, and were encouraged to eat them

I could not believe my eyes. I rubbed them over and over again, hoping that somehow reality fooled me. The only noise that I could hear was the continuous beat of my heart; thump, thump, thump, thump. It was as if my brain short-circuited and needed to be rebooted. With sweat running down my face, I gathered my courage and looked into the mirror. It has been months since I had the guts to glance at my reflection, and I was shocked. I did not expect to see such an oversized woman staring back at me. I closed my eyes at the horrifying figure and looked down to see the scale one more time. One hundred and fifty four pounds. From that moment on, I knew that things will never be the same

Third, I have lied about my weight many times. I should not be ashamed of my weight especially when I have had two pregnancies but I always worry about what people are going to say and I know that there is and always will be those people that are not afraid to tell the truth. Before I became a parent I did not care so much because I used to weigh 30 pounds less, but Ever since I had my girls I have struggle with losing weight. When people have asked how much I weight I usually tell them “oh I weight 150 lbs.” when I truly weight 160 lbs. and also when I go to get my state ID I do the same I lie about weight. Nonetheless, I have notice that as I get older I am learning to love myself more and not care what people think or say about me. My husband