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Beauty from the inside out Sometimes we have to go through difficult moments that can influence negatively our life and change it completely. In the essay Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self by Alice Walker, the author clearly convey the idea that beauty is determinate by your perspective and how you see it. In other word, beauty is not determinate by the way you look physically but how you are as a person. In Walker’ essay she shares an event that changed the way she felt about herself. It

Descriptive Statistics help describe, understand, and summarize a specific data set which can be representation of a whole population or a mere sample of it. Likewise, descriptive statistics are broken down into measures of central tendency and measures of dispersion. According to Mirabella (2011, p. 1-1) defines descriptive statistics as, “The collecting, summarizing, presenting, and analyzing of data sets.” Furthermore, descriptive data simply are describing what the data displays. Moreover

lead me to having an eating disorder. I would go online and do research on different diets and how to get a thigh gap and how to lose a large amount of weight in the shortest amount of time. I would also go on social media and find pictures of underweight girls as ‘motivation’ to help me stay focused on losing too much weight. We are greatly influenced by the unrealistic expectations of how we should look from social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat. Even though other factors

binge eating are there:- Anorexia Nervosa refers to abnormal lack of appetite or lack of desire to consume food even when there is a physiological need for food. It involves self denial of appetite and eating even if they feel hungry and became underweight. Bulimia Nervosa is also a nervous disorder when person is afraid to gain weight and eats large amounts of food. Such a person indulges in episodes of rapid eating followed by vomiting, strict dieting, taking diuretics or laxatives. Binge Eating

overweight, underweight, obese, or of a healthy/normal weight. The Body Mass Index does have its inadequacies. For example, the BMI for athletic persons and individuals who have a well-defined and toned build can be overestimated. In turn, the BMI in elderly populations and others who have little muscle tone have the possibility of underestimation (National Institute of Health, 2016). According to the National Institute of Health, a Body Mass Index below 18.5 is considered underweight, 18.5-24.9 is

Argentina gained its independence in 1819. The country struggled through many civil wars and revolutions before becoming a democracy in 1983. Since then, it has slowly become more organized, coming a far distance from a country in unrest. Argentina may not be the wealthiest or most developed country, but it displays characteristics of more developed countries with the exception of a few sectors. Argentina is a developed country, however not on Stage Five of Rostow’s Model. The statistics exhibited

nervosa begins as a type of diet but turns into a disease that can severely affect many aspects of your life. This occurs when people reach the point of starvation because they are overly conscious of their weight, even though they may be dangerously underweight. When someone becomes obsessed with their self-image, action must be taken to provide the best treatment for them. Anorexia can become a serious problem that will change the way you think, act and feel. Because of various factors, individuals are

Snap it up or mess it up: The effects of media. Taylor Hillridge got her very first computer for her 17 birthday. She decides to make a social media account. However, she soon finds herself as a victim of betrayal and bullying, afraid to show her face in school, she is pushed to her breaking point. Taylor’s mother thankfully stopped her. Her mother then took her cyberbullying case to the school system and state legislation to help prevent others from going through the same painful experience. The

Height for age charts display percentile curves that depict distributions of growth patterns based on age in children (USDA, 2015). These measurements are used by medical professionals and parents to show how a child is growing compared to other children in the United States. This is calculated by entering in data to the Height for age chart and the BMI questionnaire. The height for age chart has percentile curves and a diamond icon that is used to show where a hypothetical preschooler would fall

diagnosis is based on the baby’s smaller than average size for her age and her frequent diarrhea. FTT is classified as an abnormal pattern of weight gain or height due to lack of adequate nutrition (Horman, 2016). The five-month old could also be underweight due to a malabsorption problem. According to Horman (2016), the most common cause of FTT is inadequate caloric intake. Based on this finding, FTT would be ruled out as the baby’s diagnosis because the baby in the case scenario has a big appetite