Eating Disorders : Anorexia Nervosa And Bulimia Nervosa

Eating disorders are classified as mental disorders and can lead to life threatening damage. It is important to manage eating disorders to prevent health effects. There are many different possibilities for patients with disorders. Common treatments for eating disorders can consists of counselor or therapists. Early detection is important to limit future oral health effects. A dental hygienist has an advantage to see the inside of the mouth for possible trauma, erosion, and malnutrition. It is common for patients to be in denial of the situation. A dental hygienist is trained to communication to the patient about the eating disorder without the patient feeling attacked. It is important to tell the difference in eating disorders. Most eating disorders all appear to be anorexia until further signs and symptoms are observed. The two types of eating disorders being discussed in this paper are anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.

For decades, both men and women have struggled under the pressure of looking a certain way, what is considered "attractive". The pressure of society 's view of perfection is all around us, whenever we watch a movie or pick up a magazine. This idea of perfection has driven thousands of adolescents to turn to eating disorders, including bulimia nervosa. During the time I was bulimic, I remember watching movies and fashion shows, then looking at myself in the mirror and thinking “I’m never going to be skinny enough”. I now realize how wrong I was for punishing myself like that and how much damage I was doing to my body. That’s why I think it’s important for everyone to read about bulimia, because this disorder may go unobserved for years and

Contrary to popular believe, eating disorders are not a thing of the past. They are unfortunately very prevalent; eating disorders affect up to 30 million Americans and 70 million individuals worldwide. The Renfrew Center Foundation for Eating Disorders, "Eating Disorders 101 Guide: A Summary of Issues, Statistics and Resources," published September 2002, revised October 2003, http://www.renfrew.org. What an extremely disturbing fact! With so many people are struggling, why are the differences between anorexia and bulimia so misunderstood by the majority of the population? Anorexia and Bulimia are very severe eating disorders that are described as an unnatural relationship with food. The body of the individual that is diagnosed goes through extreme changes that ultimately cause havoc on the body and its systems. People who often suffer from these disorders tend to be overly concerned with perfection and the attainment of it. They may feel as if they have absolutely no control when it comes to some parts of their lives, so they achieve control through one of these eating disorders. Anorexics and bulimics often use the eating disorder as a way to muddle through problems from the past, as well as those of present times. Any person can have anxieties when it comes to his or her weight however, for anorexics and bulimics, it’s a life altering obsession. The sufferer may be known to become isolated from friends and family, not realizing that the disease affects not only his or

Imagine that Addie, a teenager, has become very self-conscious of her body and felt like she needed to be thin. She would do all she can to get thin. She would look in the mirror and see herself as being fat and ugly. So she chooses not to eat or she binge eat and then purge. Now Addie has what is called an eating disorder. An eating disorder is can be described as abnormal eating to alter the body image due to psychological reasons. According to Janet Belsky, it can also be classified as a pathological obsession with getting and staying thin. (Belsky 252) They are associated with a wide range of adverse psychological, physical, and social consequences. People become obsessed with checking their weight so they are constantly looking

“An eating disorder is about anxiety and control and healing from trauma and food and weight are just the tools of destruction” (Floyd, Mimms, & Yelding, 2008). An eating disorder is defined as a severe disturbance in eating behavior. An eating disorder, as defined by our text book for class, is psychological disturbances that lead to certain physiological changes and serious health complications. The three most common and most easily identifiable forms of eating disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. While most people who have eating disorders tend to be women from white middle-class upper-class families, eating disorders span social class, gender, race, and ethnic backgrounds (Floyd, Mimms, & Yelding, Eating Disorders, 2008). It is believed that most eating disorders develop as a way to handle stress. People with eating disorders tend to have low self-esteem, feelings of helplessness, depression, and perfectionism. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, more than 90 percent of people with eating disorders are adolescent girls and young women and the death rate for eating disorders is about one in ten people.

Anorexia nervosa is labelled as a psychiatric disorder seeing that it all starts in your head and is rising frequently. Early symptoms of anorexia nervosa are actions such as skipping what starts out as one meal and increases as your weight drops, randomly becoming antisocial, refusing to eat in public, constantly complaining about your body image. The person may become defensive very easily when it comes to people talking about their eating habits or simply encouraging them to eat. A diagnosis can be confirmed when the person has reached less than 85% of the average weight for someone his/her age, when the person starts to refuse that being underweight is dangerous for their health,

An eating disorder is characterized as an illness that causes serious interferences to your everyday diet, which includes eating extremely small portions of food or severely overeating (National Institute of Health , 2014). An individual with an eating disorder majority of the time begin eating smaller or larger amounts of food, but the urge to eat less or more can spiral out of control. Severe distress or concerns about weight and body image can also be characterize as an eating disorder (National Institute of Health , 2014). Eating disorders usually appear during teen years or young adulthood, but can also develop during childhood or later in life. Common eating disorders include anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.

The National Eating Disorders Association says that the average women is 63,6kg and the average model is 53kg. Magazines and social media display what they think is the perfect weight, height, hair colour, etc. and so many people are unsatisfied with themselves when they compare their appearance with that of society’s. This often leads unsatisfied people to developing an eating disorder. Having an eating disorder is a serious medical problem. They most frequently develop during adolescence, but can occur earlier or in adulthood and is more common amongst females than males. It is more than just a problem with food, they use it to try gain control and ease tension and anxiety.

The purpose of this study is to examine how fashion models deal with anorexia nervosa and bulimia in normal weight and its increase interest across the nation especially with the young women and little girls within the Western Culture. The focus of women that suffer from anorexia and bulimia has been growing attention from the public eyes and health disciplines. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia are no longer considered rare when it comes down to fashion models. In fact, being anorexic is prevalent and is inspiring young woman to become anorexic, especially young women and girls in the Western Culture. Girls and adolescence are definitely attempting to look like a fashion model, in which, as a result, causes them to become anorexic or quickly gain

The most commonly known eating disorders are anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Anorexia nervosa can be defined as “a serious, potentially life-threatening eating disorder characterized by self-starvation and excessive weight loss.” People with anorexia have an intense fear of gaining weight and are obsessed with the way they look. These people either exercise excessively or to prevent them from obtaining any more weight, they will restrict the amount of food they eat. This can lead to a

Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder that consists of self-starvation and extreme weight loss, it can potentially be life threatening. People with anorexia value controlling their weight and shape, they will use extreme measures to have the perfect weight and shape. Anorexia can interfere with a person's typical daily activities. People with anorexia usually control their weight by vomiting after eating, misusing laxatives, or exercising excessively. However it doesn’t matter how the weight is loss, anorexic people will still have the fear of gaining weight. They often think that your weight is your self worth. If you think about it, anorexia isn’t really about the food, it's about they way you handle social, emotional, and biological problems.

An eating disorder is a mental illness that causes many serious troubles in a person's everyday diet. This illness can manifest itself as eating either extremely small amounts of food or by severely overeating. These two types of eating disorders are known as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Anorexia nervosa is a disorder in which you feel a lack of appetite, while bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder in which you overeat and then the sense of guilt makes yourself throw-up. Although each one is manifested in different ways, at the end both are reflections of mental issues.

The DSM-IV-TR states that there are two main types of eating disorders, anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Anorexia and bulimia are extremely serious eating disorders. The word anorexia means loss of appetite, while boulima refers to bulimia and means “Hunger of an ox”. “Ninety percent of cases of eating disorders occur in adolescent females, this fluctuates from the ages of 14 through 18”. Eating disorders are associated with an altered body image, displeasure with body weight, and unhealthy patterns of food consumption (Valentina, Markovic, Srdanovic & Mitrovic, 2010, 3).

Goldberg (2016) notes that although anorexia essentially means "loss of appetite," this definition is inaccurate as people with this disorder are in fact, hungry, but refuse to eat. Individuals suffering from anorexia, tend to have an obsessive fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, so they start behaving in ways that causes them to lose an excessive amount of weight, by either restricting the amount of food consumed, exercising too much, or starving themselves (Anorexia Nervosa: Signs, Symptoms, Causes, And Treatment; Smith, Melinda, M.A., and Jeanne Segal, Ph.D). These individuals have a distorted perception of themselves, believing that they are too fat, when they are in fact underweight, as well as overly weighing themselves to see if they gained any weight, overly obsessing over food labels and nutrition, and developing "strange eating habits," such as "cutting food into tiny pieces, eating alone, and/or hiding food;" In addition. people struggling with this disorder tend to have a low self esteem, feel hopeless, and become socially withdrawn from family, friends, and activities they once enjoyed. ("Anorexia: Signs, Symptoms, Causes & Treatment Help;" Smith, Melinda, M.A., and Jeanne Segal, Ph.D; Goldberg, Joseph, MD).

There are two main types of eating disorders: anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. The term ‘anorexia nervosa’ was coined in 1873 by an English physician, William Gull (Gordon, 2000). Anorexia nervosa is the most common eating disorder amongst teenage girls (source). Anorexia nervosa is characterized as self-induced starvation and excessive weight loss (Touchette, 2011). It is apparent that most young women watch and analyze their weight and eating patterns to try and attain what they believe society perceives as beautiful. However, they do not realize that this behaviour can lead to anorexia as