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…many emotional states that may lead to “dieting”, starving oneself, or binge eating. There are also finding such things as getting into school or club activities, possibly getting a job. Those few things would be the most reasonable approaches to resolving…

…irregularities, such as skipping meals and binge eating. Computer addicts experience sleep disturbances, or changes in sleeping patterns, which are most likely due to late hours on the computer and low blood sugar from eating irregularities. One last effect…

…or young girls body makes them fat or over weight, not only in other peoples eyes but also, and more importantly, in their own eyes. In society today the images of the "perfect woman" have lead the majority of young girls to anorexia, bulimia or binge eating…

…right away. One primary symptom is the change in size and major weight loss from excessive and continuous dieting. Dieting is usually of an unhealthy nature; this may either be restrictive and or binge eating. Anorexic individuals usually have cold…

…this ideological belief to Victorian times when showing women eating was a "representational taboo", and celebrations of female sexuality used images of women eating "explicitly, lustily, and joyfully". The images that media surround us with most often agree with our…

…as mentally. Although the tendency to leave out obesity when thinking about eating disorders, the most prevalent eating disorder is overeating, or binge-eating. There has been a 75% relative increase in adolescent obesity over the past 3 decades and the numbers…

…, obesity, and compulsive binge eating, often followed by self-induced vomiting (Hesse-Biber, 1989, p. 71). What are the reasons for eating disorders among college-aged women? It is the purpose of this paper to discuss this question and give an overview…

…Anorexia Living in a society in which many young girls strive to resemble the waif models that are plastered on the cover of magazines, many have suffered an on going battle with eating disorders. Anorexia means lack of appetite…

…. It is characterized by episodes of binge eating; eating large quantities of food in a short time. This behavior may be very severe with enormous quantities of food, most typically carbohydrates being consumed. To prevent the otherwise inevitable consequence of weight gain…

…by cutting back on their food intake, and turning quickly, with out control, into self-starvation. Also, it is a disorder that crosses racial and economical lines, those who succumb to compulsive starving or binge eating are males. This shows that today’s…