Unlike Any Other Disease: Anorexia “I really gotta start losing weight before spring break,” a 15 year old from Long Island wrote in her blog on Xanga.com, a social networking site. “Basically today I went 24 hours without food and then I ate green beans and a little baked ziti. Frankly I’m proud of myself, not to mention the 100 sit-ups on the yoga ball and the 100 I’ll do before sleep. Yay for me.” (Williams 2). Anorexia nervosa is an illness that usually occurs in teenage girls, but it can
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right to call itself sane. In society today the growing obsession with slimness has caused young people to feel overweight, even if they are a normal weight. This obsession has lead to young people developing eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa. One big factor that causes these disorders is the media because it has placed an emphasis on how someone should look and what is the "normal" weight. These images of being skinny or any other characteristic that is found to be physically
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“Nervous loss of appetite” is what anorexia nervosa means, and based upon certain misunderstandings, this meaning hasn’t been necessarily good. Most people assume that individuals who are suffering from anorexia nervosa have just made a solid decision that they are no longer going to eat, when in reality, those who are suffering from this mental illness do not at all have a lack of appetite. Being mentally frightened of gaining weight is the main concept of anorexia nervosa. The word “weightfobia” could
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ch16 Student: ___________________________________________________________________________ 1. A basic premise of health in early Asian culture was that: A. people have some control over their health. B. gods caused illness and disease. C. magic could cure illness. D. superstition determined treatment. 2. Your_______ plays a critical role in your health and consists of your attitudes, habits, choices, and behaviors. A. genetic potential B. heritage C. lifestyle D. health personality
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called anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. These diseases not only physically affect victims, but also psychologically. In fact, a large number of patients treated for anorexia were in psychological counseling, and were also treated for depression and anxiety. But are we, as a society, attempting to help? Nope. Not even a little. We’re so caught up on today’s new “Keeping Up With The Kardashians” show, that we’ve been so blind as to never notice the people
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reproduced by permission of the American Academy of Pediatrics Silber TJ. Treatment of anorexia nervosa against the patient's will: ethical considerations. Adolesc Med State Art Rev. 2011;22(2):283-8, x. Adolesc Med 022 (2011) 283–288 Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa against the Patient’s Will: Ethical Considerations Tomas J. Silber, MD, MASS* Director, Pediatric Ethics Program, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children’s National Medical Center, Professor of Pediatrics, George Washington University
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Types of Eating Disorders Anorexia Nervosa Anorexia Nervosa is characterized by the refusal to eat. It can affect anyone of any gender or age but disproportionately affects young women in their late teens and early twenties. There are four criteria that must be present to achieve a diagnosis of Anorexia Nervosa. First a person must refuse to maintain body weight over a minimal normal weight for age and height or have a failure to make expected weight gain during a defined period of growth
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[pic] Background/History Anorexia dates back to about seven hundred years ago, but it was first described in England in the 1800’s. The name Anorexia comes from two Greek words meaning a lack of desire to eat. Professor Ernets Lasegue of the University of Paris identified it as an illness just over 100 years ago. However, Sir William Gull was the first to document and treat anorexia. Sir Gull also gave Anorexia its current name. Anorexia nervosa overview Anorexia Nervo´sa is an eating disorder
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an effective treatment for Anorexia Nervosa. In one study published by the International Journal of Eating Disorders, they measured the key components of treatment for Family Based Therapy. In their findings they found that higher parental control, greater unity by parents, lower judgment, and greater manifestation of Anorexia Nervosa were related to weight gain through treatment outcome. Parental Control was found to be the most significant cause of Anorexia Nervosa because parents believe that
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Furthermore, important to the discussion of the motivation to eat healthy are the underlying neurological structures involved in the sensation of hunger and satiety, intrinsic and extrinsic factors, and the environmental and biological basis of anorexia nervosa and obesity. Neurological Structures of Hunger and Satiety In the 1930’s, 40’s, and 50’s experiments on rats, concerning lesions to the ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH) and the lateral hypothalamus (LH), seemed to explain the neurological mechanisms
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