Our Society today is plagued with multiple medical problems including eating disorders. Primarily, our society places too much pressure on one's appearance; this may cause eating disorders for all ages throughout the country. Many different types of people are affected with eating disorders. Th...

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, still feeling fat, continue to starve themselves. T...

Dieting In America Americans idealization of slender young bodies plays a major role in this seemingly addictive behavior of dieting. The media relentlessly portrays the ideal woman at five feet seven inches and 105 pounds. So we diet and binge our way to our ideal weight. Sometimes it se...

Anorexia Nervosa Each year millions of people in the United States are affected by serious and sometimes life-threatening eating disorders. The vast majority are adolescents and young adult women. Approximately one percent of adolescent girls develops anorexia nervosa, a dangerous condition in whi...

The sports world has a plethora of products including pills, potionsand tonics that provide loads of promises to give the athlete that winningedge. Their promises include improved performance, better endurance,increased strength and better recovery. These can be achieved by redu...

The top ten Chronic diseases, including heart disease, diabetes and cancer, are all customarily associated with or aggravated by being overweight. In the United States we have so many different choices as to what new diet we can choose for the week, plus the USDA (United States Department of Agricul...

Eating Disorders A vast amount of research has been done on the subject of eating disorders and their causes. This essay will explore the development of eating disorders in adolescent girls. It will show that these disorders are closely connected to the biological and psychosocial changes that occ...

The number of older Americans has increased more than ten-fold since 1900, when there were 3 million people age 65 or older or 4 percent of the total population. In 2011, the "baby boom" generation will begin to turn 65, and by 2030, it is projected that one in five people will be age 65 or older...

Internally UglyA vast amount of research has been done on the subject of eating disorders and their causes. Many eating disorders have been proven to emerge during adolescence and often serve as the foundations to more serious problems like anorexia and bulimia. The developments of eating disorders ...

The adolescent years are a time when body image is crucial and peers can be painfully critical (Morrill, Leach, Shreeve, & Radebaugh, 1991). The presence of an eating disorder in this critical period can seriously harm an adolescent physically as well as mentally. Although the tendency to leave ...

Western culture today is overflowing with fad diets and health crazes while conflicting political and social viewpoints rage among the masses. Somewhere within these often unexpectedly controversial subjects lies that of vegetarianism versus meat-eating. Meat-eaters often take personal of...

In recent history, the idea of feminine beauty has been shifting toward a less healthy, overly thin model. More than 25,000 years ago when humans first evolved, women exaggerated their reproductive organs, like breasts and hips, using fertility symbols. Slim women were not considered beautiful becau...

Life on the Fast Food Lane In Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser it discusses the bad eating habits and the unhealthy foods that cook behind the grill. This informative book shows not only what goes on in America, but also what happens behind the counter in other countries. It discusses the hea...

Anorexia NervosaEach year millions of people in the United States are affected by serious and sometimes life-threatening eating disorders. The vast majority are adolescents and young adult women. Approximately one percent of adolescent girls develops anorexia nervosa, a dangerous condition in which ...

Pineapples are a very important commodity that grows mostly in tropical climates. They are altered into many different things, from canned pineapple to pineapple juice, and it is a very profitable market. Even the enzyme found in pineapples, bromelain, is extracted and used for many different purp...

The influences of the media as a factor in the increase in eatingdisorders among young women have become an increasingly pervasive problemthroughput the world. Many professionals and researchers place a large partof the blame of this increase on the influence of the media and adverti...

Since the 1930's, people have been interested in strengthening and defining the human body. However it wasn't until 1960's, that body builders began to resemble the sport that it is today. Bodybuilding is becoming more popular by the day with the recognition of its positive influences on a person'...