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Topic: What is causing young adults and teens to develop eating disorders and how can we help them?

I remember the day I came home from school and my dad was waiting for me on the porch. For my father to be home so early was an oddity in itself, but the twisted look on his face told me that something wasn't right. The February wind was bitter, and he must have been numb from the cold, wearing only his button down work shirt and khakis. Maybe that's why his mouth was frozen in a grim line. The question was: was it frozen in sadness? Or anger?

Forty-three published abstracts were retrieved from PubMed database and three were retrieved from CINAHL database, for a total of 46 articles for potential inclusion in the review. Three duplicates were then removed, yielding 43 articles for potential inclusion. Two articles were excluded because they are commentaries. Three articles were excluded because they are reviews. One article was excluded because it is a case study. 14 articles were excluded because they do not include a mindful eating intervention. Two articles were excluded because they do not focus on weight or weight-related co-morbidities. One article was excluded because it focuses on anorexia nervosa or bulimia. One article was

In today's society, there is much attention being given to the subject of eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia; unfortunately it is because these disorders seem to be becoming more and more common. The question that remains is whether eating disorders such as these are simply personal problems of the individuals, or if they have become a social problem that needs to be addressed more aggressively. Having grown up in this society, I see this issue as a definite social problem. To say that these increasingly common eating disorders are personal problems, implies that the causes of them are personal as well, which I believe is not the case. A social problem is something that goes against society's goals and values; it would seem

The four sections that follow review the article “A qualitative study of transgender individuals experiences in residential addiction treatment settings: stigma and inclusivity” by Lyons, T. Shannon, K., Pierre, L., Small, W., Krüsi, A., Kerr, T. (2015).

A combination of genetic, physical, social, and psychological factors may contribute to the development of an eating disorder, such as Anorexia. Anorexia is an emotional disorder characterized by an obsessive desire to lose weight by refusing to eat. Eating disorders effect ten million females and one million males in the United States. Also 0.3 percent of the eating disorders occur in teenage children.

Media success has always been based on the exploitation of the rare or controversial. Magazines, television, and documentaries always seem to focus on unusual situations or the belittling of an individual’s habits. No one is to blame, however exploiting people and their unhealthy choices should be frowned upon, but society thrives off of the “unknown” and “lesser-seen”. Eating abnormalities seem to have become the newest trend, putting teen pregnancy and drug abuse on the backburner. Shows seem to focus solely on health implications caused by overeating, not eating, or eating foreign objects. Has the media's constant infatuation with the irregular led society to become desensitized to these outlandish topics, or has society begun to

"Why dissallow the trendy images of women from being plastered ubiquitously?" one may ask. Banning this perception of women, unhealthily thin, will save the women of this great nation from eating disorders. Our women will be more confident in their own skin and not feel as pressured to live up to this image. We, as people of this land, see this problem but choose not to do anything. The medical care for people with eating disorders is inadequit, and too expensive, as it is. With girls and women trying so hard today, to look like what the media portrays, it is no wonder that our country's health is in a downward spiral. Trying to live up to these unreal expectations can result in anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating.

It was not a very easy thing to do. I must have told myself to quit about a million times. I only worked hard and gave it my all for two weeks.

I have something to tell you. Her six words echo and millions of questions flash in my mind – What is it? What’s wrong? What happened? Is she okay? I would never have expected that the next words out of my best friend’s mouth would be I have an eating disorder. An eating disorder? At the time, I barely even knew what an eating disorder was or how to respond in that moment. Bulimia. This news was like a bullet to my chest. Again, questions raced through my mind – How long? What does this mean? How severe? What do I do? What do I say? How can I help? At age fifteen, one might have heard of an eating disorder but most likely never experienced it firsthand. I cannot imagine the extreme amount of courage that it took for her to tell me this, but

In this school I became friends with the “ popular girls”. They didn’t accept me for me. The called me fat. They said I wasn’t pretty enough. They called me it so much I began to believe it myself. All I wanted was for them to like me. I did everything I could in order for them like me. I called my grandparents and asked for money. When I got it I spent it all of makeup and clothes. Then I tried to lose weight. I took risky precautions to do so. I then developed an eating disorder. I was bulimic for two years. In seventh grade I only weighed eighty nine pounds. I had to have someone with me at all times to make sure I wouldn’t force myself to throw up. It got so bad that I had to have a surgery to stop my gag reflex to ensure I couldn’t do

Brewerton, Timothy D. "Eating disorders, trauma, and comorbidity: Focus on PTSD." Eating disorders 15.4 (2007): 285-304.

Food has become one of the main topics that concerns people the most. Due to the concern in food many have become more aware of the way they look, being college students those with the highest population worrying about their body image. The purpose of the study is to determine if within that college population being affected, nursing students make a part of that population being more knowledgeable on the topic. Determining body mass index and possible modulation of anxious personality traits, existence of possible eating disorders will be identify. The study recruited 128 nursing students, they were given two test the STAI and EAT. The results of the study showed that there was a high percentage of nursing students that suffered from eating

It is evident that the number of teenagers suffering from an eating disorder will continue to increase as the future generations become more and more developed. The effects will most likely become even more worse then it already is. Eating disorders will increase due to the media, everywhere you are you always see commercials, advertisements etc and you see a skinny or really buff model. This makes females and males feel more insecure about themselves, just last week the Victorias Secret fashion show was on tv and this showed society how all models are supposed to look skinny and tall. Females today are more effected to suffer from an eating disorder than men. The most significant detail I have learned through my research was that eating disorders

The tension in the air is abundant. The silence is deafening. “I’m leaving…” my father’s voice says. Shattering the fragile silence. Glancing to my mother for a retort. She stays silent, her breath still heaving from the heated argument that presumably ended. Step in and comfort her, a voice say. But I’ve turned to stone and all I could do is watch. My father then ushers my sisters and me to go with him. As he and my sisters start to stretch away, I stay in place. Abandoning my mother is not a choice I couldn’t ,and I shouldn’t do this. I knew that if I were to walk away. This would be the last time. I would see my mother. I stood my ground. My father glanced back at me as if to say “Stay, it