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Eating Disorder Causes
Article Summary: This website gives multiple in-detail possibilities of reasons why an eating disorder may occur. Things such as culture, family, peers, and sexual abuse. Percentages have been recorded that 35% of women with bulimia have be sexually abused. It's 8x more likely to occur if a relative has had past issues with eating disorders. Family members can as well trigger an emotional breakdown by telling a child that they need to loose weight, causing this child to have many insecurities about their body image. It's not always possible to prevent an eating disorder but the best way to try is by eating healthy and encouraging your child to do the same. From this article I have a few more further questions to research.
http://www.umm.edu/patiented/articles/what_causes_eating_disorders_000049_3.htm
The many causes of an eating disorder
Article Summary: Eating disorders are classified as self-harm but patients' mindsets are different. Instead of it being self-harm they think of it as fixing a previous problem. Low self-esteem and shun themselves from the world. To occupy a patients brain from an eating disorder they work out to feel control over their bodies. Half of eating disorder patients have or previously had depression which can trigger the eating disorder. One third of those patients have previously struggled with obsessive compulsive disorder which makes the patient feel in control of life. A break-up, loss of family member, or loss of control can trigger an eating disorder patients.
Eating Disorder Statistics
Article Summary: This website is mostly statistics about eating disorders. It states how women are more likely to have an eating disorder over men. 10-15% of men have eating disorders. The reason it's five times more likely in women than men is because it is thought of as a womanly disease. By something as simple as dieting it can easily cause a trigger in the body to eat less and less turning into an eating disorder.
Article Summary: This website gives multiple in-detail possibilities of reasons why an eating disorder may occur. Things such as culture, family, peers, and sexual abuse. Percentages have been recorded that 35% of women with bulimia have be sexually abused. It's 8x more likely to occur if a relative has had past issues with eating disorders. Family members can as well trigger an emotional breakdown by telling a child that they need to loose weight, causing this child to have many insecurities about their body image. It's not always possible to prevent an eating disorder but the best way to try is by eating healthy and encouraging your child to do the same. From this article I have a few more further questions to research.
http://www.umm.edu/patiented/articles/what_causes_eating_disorders_000049_3.htm
The many causes of an eating disorder
Article Summary: Eating disorders are classified as self-harm but patients' mindsets are different. Instead of it being self-harm they think of it as fixing a previous problem. Low self-esteem and shun themselves from the world. To occupy a patients brain from an eating disorder they work out to feel control over their bodies. Half of eating disorder patients have or previously had depression which can trigger the eating disorder. One third of those patients have previously struggled with obsessive compulsive disorder which makes the patient feel in control of life. A break-up, loss of family member, or loss of control can trigger an eating disorder patients.
- “Children of parents who diet frequently are more likely to worry about their weight, judge their appearance negatively, and begin dieting themselves.”
- “Most people who develop eating disorders report having painfully low self-esteem before the onset of their eating problems.”
- “Researchers have found that some people develop eating disorders in response to other psychiatric symptoms that occurred first.”
Eating Disorder Statistics
Article Summary: This website is mostly statistics about eating disorders. It states how women are more likely to have an eating disorder over men. 10-15% of men have eating disorders. The reason it's five times more likely in women than men is because it is thought of as a womanly disease. By something as simple as dieting it can easily cause a trigger in the body to eat less and less turning into an eating disorder.
- “91% of women surveyed on a college campus had attempted to control their weight through dieting. 22% dieted “often” “
- “86% report onset of eating disorder by age 20; 43% report onset between ages of 16 and 20”
- “95% of those who have eating disorders are between the ages of 12 and 25”
- “Over one-half of teenage girls and nearly one-third of teenage boys use unhealthy weight control behaviors such as skipping meals, fasting, smoking cigarettes, vomiting, and taking laxatives”
- “95% of all dieters will regain their lost weight within 5 years”
- “47% of girls in 5th-12th grade reported wanting to lose weight because of magazine pictures”
- “69% of girls in 5th-12th grade reported that magazine pictures influenced their idea of a perfect body shape”
- “Female athletes in aesthetic sports (e.g. gymnastics, ballet, figure skating) found to be at the highest risk for eating disorders”
- “Almost 50% of people with eating disorders meet the criteria for depression”
- http://www.anad.org/get-information/about-eating-disorders/eating-disorders-statistics/