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If you are pressed for time, or your writing skills are a bit rusty, no problem \u2013 we can rewrite it for you. Just use your Articlez.com account<\/a>, place an order for \u201cElite\u201d content, and in the \u201cnotes\u201d area of your order form paste in this original article and ask us to rewrite it (or to write a fresh one on the same subject).<\/p>\n Eating Disorder Awareness Week (February 1-7, 2018)<\/strong> was observed earlier this month. Now is the perfect time to draw attention to the nearly 8 million people in the US who are presently struggling with the destructive and sometimes dangerous consequences associated with having an eating disorder (ED).<\/p>\n A person\u2019s specific, repeatable thought processes, rituals, and behavior patterns as relates to their relationship to food is what defines an actual eating disorder. Collectively, they each are a different manifestation beneath the umbrella of mental illness. More women than men have eating disorders as men account for just 10% of diagnosed ED cases.<\/p>\n Technically, an eating disorder<\/a> is any obsessive, unusual, or unhealthy behavioral approach to food<\/strong>. The most often seen food disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and binge eating. Together, these three account for most of the eating disorders in modern society. One of the lesser-known dietary illnesses is called trichophagia<\/a>. It is a condition where a person repeatedly and obsessively pulls out his hair and then eats it. It\u2019s an unpalatable sounding behavior, for sure, but what people need to know is that such a practice is dangerous and can lead to blockages, even death. Another unusual eating disorder is called Pica<\/a>. Individuals afflicted with the illness apparently have quite an appetite for chowing down on raw clay, possibly for its mineral content. Some people with Pica eat dirt.<\/p>\n Orthorexia<\/a> is an emerging dietary disorder that characterized by a person\u2019s excessive concern with food quality. Those who suffer so go well beyond a healthy watchfulness and become truly obsessed with evaluating the purity of every bite of food they put in their mouths. They want to see the packaging, know the point of origin, and study each label. These rare eating disorders are of legitimate concern and deserve to be studied. However, even when added together, their numbers are thankfully small, especially when compared to the staggering number of adolescent girls who have fallen victim to the self-destructive message of the world\u2019s best-known eating disorder: Anorexia Nervosa<\/a>.<\/p>\n It is unfortunate the advertising industry promotes as its ideal images of men and women who seem impossibly thin, beautifully well-built, amazingly fit, exquisitely tan, magically wrinkle-free, and excessively alluring in appearance to promote, advertise, and sell their products. Women who fear negative comparisons with other women (whether voiced, thought, or imagined), feel it urgent that they maintain their appearance in such a way as to remain forever young, strong, shapely, and energetic.<\/p>\n The threat is clear. Fail to meet this standard and you won\u2019t be good enough. You won\u2019t be thin enough. You won\u2019t be accepted or loved. That\u2019s the threat. That\u2019s the fear. It\u2019s also not true. You do belong, any and everywhere you go simply because you exist. You have as much right to be here as anyone else.<\/p>\n Girls and young women absorb this subtle message, often hundreds of thousands of times by the time they\u2019re middle-schoolers. They come to feel that they must, at all costs, not just meet a standard of skinniness, but surpass it. They vow they will measure up if by nothing more than sheer force of will. They rigidly control their bodies because they believe that\u2019s the only control they have. Some anorexics deprive themselves to the point that their muscles are damaged, most notably, the heart. Untreated anorexia has the potential to become a life-threating illness.<\/p>\n Symptoms of anorexia include low body weight, amenorrhea (cessation of periods), excessive exercising, nervousness, low heart rate, isolation from a support network, and obsessive-compulsive behaviors.<\/p>\n Bulimia<\/a> is what happens when the thin girl excuses herself from the dinner table to use the ladies\u2019 room only to immediately stick her finger down her throat to induce herself to vomit up the food she just consumed. Minutes later, she\u2019s smiling at her friends across the table once more. It has become a habit with her. Look closely and you might even see the acid wash scars on the back of her hands. She deserves everybody\u2019s empathy, as does the woman with anorexia and the one who binges. It\u2019s not much more than a response to the peculiar challenges you\u2019ve been given and chosen for yourself in life. Another symptom that is worth nothing with bulimics is the frequent or longstanding need for dental work. Stomach acid erodes teeth.<\/p>\n90% of Eating Disorders Cured with Treatment but Only 10% Seek Help<\/h2>\n
Eating Disorders Range from Ordinary to Newly Emerging<\/h2>\n
Orthorexia: Extreme Concern for Food Quality Disorder<\/h2>\n
Anorexia Nervosa: You\u2019re Not Thin Enough<\/h2>\n
Why Anorexics Feel They Need to Control Their Bodies<\/h2>\n
Bulimia Erodes a Person\u2019s Whole Life<\/h2>\n
Binge Eating \u2013 a Compulsion Worth Curbing<\/h2>\n