The Causes and Effects of Anorexia Nervosa? Eating disorders are not new. Anorexia Nervosa was first formally diagnosed in 1874, and the symptoms have been observed as far back as 300 years ago. Although the condition has been known for centuries, it seems to be center stage now during the last...

From earliest time people have been aware that some plants are poisonous and should be avoided as food. Other plants contain chemicals that have medicinal, stimulatory, hallucinatory, or narcotic effects. In the past 50 years, great strides have been made in understanding nutrition and the role it...

Under nutrition is a problem faced today by many children in the United States. It is very important for children to get as many nutrients in their body to be healthy. Under nutrition is caused because the body lacks the six sources of nutrients carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals an...

If fast food has such a significant impact on our society and economy, it is only natural that it should also have at least some effect on our environment. Presumably, the generalization of fast food in America, and now spreading all over the world, can lead to major negative impacts on our environ...

What does it mean to be physically fit? Does it mean you can throw a football like John Elway, or hit a baseball like Sammy Sosa? Does it mean you can run a mile in one hundred degree weather under twelve minutes, or swim fifteen laps across a pool in one minute? Is physical fitness being anorexi...

In Canada, "33 percent of boys and 27 percent of girls are seriously overweight" (DeMont). Is this the future image of the average Canadian? The rapid increase of obesity in Canada has an obvious prevention. The best way to lose pounds and maintain an optimal weight is to exercise regularly, whil...

Anorexia is a condition that affects every part of you, your body, and your mind. In the world that we live in, where on every magazine cover, every tv show, and even in your home room, you see beautiful, skinny girls that seem to have everything they want. They seem to be popular, always happy, a...

FAST FOOD AND OBESITY In the past, people in the United States used to eat healthy and used to eat freshly prepared food and meals with their families. Today, many young people prefer to eat fast food such as high fat hamburgers, high-carbohydrate French-fries, fried chicken, or piz...

More than five million Americans suffer from eating disorders. It is estimated that eighty-five percent of eating disorders begin during the adolescent age and may last through the mid twenties. However, Bulimia Nervosa is one of the many eating disorders that affect five percent of females in the...

"They have an intense fear. It's so overwhelming that they'd rather be dead than fat." (110 Brownwell) An abusive disease that kills ten percent of its victims is Anorexia Nervosa. This self-starvation disorder affects one percent of all females and is a silent killer (1 Powell)....

"Don't Believe Everything You See" All across the country, people strive to have the perfect body and to be the perfect weight. These people get their ideas from the media, and because of the images they see everyday, they cause themselves harm because they think that they need to be just lik...

Many women of today are very weight conscious. Females from fashion magazines, models, entertainers and movie stars have perfectly curved slim bodies. Every woman probably wants to be like them, they get into exercising, dieting or yoga. But we are blinded by the fact that we have more obese or anor...

Is Small Healthy? Is small healthy? Or did Seckler quite early in his research? Both of these questions arose to me after reading the two articles: "Malnutrition": An Intellectual Odyssey by David Seckler and "Small but Healthy by Gretel H Pelto and Pertti J. Pelto. In th...

The influences present in our society causes Weight Loss to be a vibrant issue in the minds of many in today's society. The Media through the route of TV shows, commercials, magazines enforces a depiction of a "perfect body". Weight Loss Ads continue to defy the reality of being obese...

This day in age it seems like everything is image oriented. This is where "the eating disorder" emerges. I believe that an eating disorder is more than anorexia or bulimia, it is also crash dieting. My reasoning behind this is because as anorexia and bulimia ruin ones body so does cr...

There are more than 14 million Americans on antidepressants. That is one out of every ten people in the United States. Consequently, only twenty five percent of people with depression have access to treatment. Therefore, a holistic approach is one way to handle depression, other than treating with ...

Cause and Effects of Fast Food on Americans Fast food has infiltrated every nook and cranny of American society. Everywhere you turn, you can see a fast food restaurant. An industry that modestly began with very few hot dog and hamburger vendors now has become a multi-international industry se...

Many consider obesity an individual matter. However, children cannot be accountable for their weight. The children have little knowledge about the anatomy of their bodies. Children will keep eating if they see that junk food is ok. There are two main arguments on this issue: 1) Child obesity is mos...

DIABETES There are two different kinds of Diabetes, Diabetes Mellitus and Diabetes Insipidus. Diabetes Mellitus is the common one of the two. It occurs when the pancreas doesn't produce enough hormone called insulin. Diabes Insipidus is when the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland doe...

Introduction Obesity is a common disorder amongst our society today. It is caused by many factors, including excessive caloric intake, lack of physical activity, as well as genetic influences. Excess body fat is caused by an imbalance between energy intake and energy expenditure which are brough...

Publication: "Food- Pint of Contention: While critics question the virtues of milk, others say pour it on for good health. Here's the bottom line." ; Timothy Gower; Health Magazine; May 2002; pgs 66-70. Summary: Timothy Gower focuses on the controversial topic of whether or...

Anorexia Nervosa is a form of undernutrition caused by nervous and/or psychological factors. Typically, it is an eating disorder of adolescent girls, but occasionally it occurs in older females, younger children, and males. Anorexia Nervosa patients are preoccupied with food. They collect and read b...

In today's society it has become more and more typical for young children ranging from ages four to seventeen to sit around all day watching television. This inactive lifestyle is contributing to the onset of obesity at an increasingly early age. Being so overweight causes low self-esteem, an...

My disease is Bulimia. I choose this topic because I was very curious about it. This disease effects the digestive system, which effects the rest of the body systems.Bulimia is a disease that is a serious eating disorder characterized by alternating binge eating and purging. The Bulimic first eat...

Societies perception about the perfect person is best known to have the perfect body. The healthy habit I have decided to write on is being overweight. Being overweight has many effects on children as well as adults. As an overweight child he or she has many problems growing up. For instance lar...