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…eating disorder was never about food, I had been feeding myself love, safety, security and strength. I could conquer the world, be anybody, d anything when I was eating. When I felt I was loosing control of my eating, I starved and immediately, I regained…

…to attempt to determine the drive behind the human instinct. There are several important forms of motivation that include areas such as sexual motivation, aggressive motivation and also hunger and thirst (focusing in this case, on eating disorders). MASLOW’S…

…, eating and anxiety disorders, psychosis, ADHD, autism, abuse, and divorce. Depression is a rare disorder for children under the age of twelve, affecting only 1 to 2 percent of children five to eleven years of age. By the time children hit puberty…

…of the padding and curves that make our bodies so different from the bodies of men..." J. Hirschmann In the United States approximately 10% of girls and women are suffering from diagnosed eating disorders. Of these at least 50,000 will die as a result. Recent data…

…Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that mainly affects girls but boys can still suffer from it. Anorexia nervosa starts in the early teens and surveys suggest 1 per cent of school girls and uni students have anorexia nervosa. The disease is most…

…ANOREXIA NERVOSA There are many diseases/disorders involving food, eating, and weight in American society. Anorexia Nervosa is one of the main diseases that deals with weight. Anorexia is the relentless pursuit to be thin. It is the refusal…

…on the role of genetics (ref), breastfeeding (ref) and eating patterns in adolescents (ref). However, few have failed to recognise the relevance of the eating behaviour, as shaped during the weaning period in infants and the expression of eating disorders like…

…at a movie (her boyfriend, Todd, cancelled on her) she eats enough food for five people then makes herself throw up. This is not just pigging out. It's symptomatic of an increasingly widespread eating disorder known as bulimia or the binge purge syndrome and it's…

…develop bulimia nervosa. This is a type of eating disorder in which individuals engage in episodes of binge eating, or consuming large amounts of food in a short period, and then purging the food from their bodies by self-induced vomiting or abuse of laxatives…

…"Anorexia Nervosa" Bizarre, devastating, and baffling are three words that describe the anorexia nervosa disease. By definition, anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder in which a normal-weight person diets and becomes significantly underweight, yet…