Eating Disorders
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Introduction
Disordered eating refers to mild and transient changes in eating patterns that occur in relation to a stressful event, an illness, or even desire to modify the diet for a variety of health and personal appearance reasons. Putting it simply, as it can be seen that each one of us is different. We express ourselves in a number of ways. One of the expressing acts is to develop an eating disorder. That can either be binge eating which is defined as the consumption of food that is definitely larger than most people would eat during a similar period of time and under similar circumstances, anorexia nervosa which is a refusal to food and maintaining a weight that is usually 85% or less that what is expected of age and height, and finally bulimia which is binge eating followed by self-induced vomiting.
Background
Eating disorders among young adults has been reaching epidemic proportions. Coping with eating disorders is not just a female illness as often perceived. Men suffer too (Andersen 2000). There is some overlap between the different genders' eating disorders, but men's problems tend to be more associated either with athletics, sexual orientations, or their father's medical condition (Andersen 2000). Men, compared to women, are more likely to use exercise than diets to control their shape, rather than their weight...