Eating disorders - how are they caused?

Two young girls are walking down a street. One girl says to the other girl, "When I grow up I want to be a size zero", the other girl replies "No I'm going to be a size zero!" Believe it or not, no longer in Britain do six year olds dream of becoming the queen or the prime minister, a fairy or Santa; the newest craze sweeping our nation is; "I want to be a size zero". Once upon a time, fat was fashionable. The voluptuous Victorians used their weight to indicate their vast wealth, only the fattest women were chosen to be muses in some of the most famous paintings and, in Tudor times, the man who ruled over the entire ...  Read the complete review

"The fashion industry's promotion of beauty as being stick thin is damaging to to young girls' self image and health" "Pasarela Cibeles announced it was banning models with a body mass index, or height to weight ratio, below 18" Finally. In a world that seems intent on making us all feel either to fat or to thin a breakthrough has been made by sanity. The women on the catwalk are not attractive. They are just clothes horses, who exist to shock as much as the outfits that they wear. The actual attractive women are the ones who are real. The one's with curves, the one's whose belly's roll over slightly when they sit ...  Read the complete review

Eating disorders are very common 7 girls in every thousand and 1 boy in every thousand are effected, when I looked this up I was quite shocked to find out that it did affect boys this much. I think I like many others have always related it to woman and girls. Eating disorders can come in different forms they can be anorexia where they often just don't eat or eat very little. Bulimias where the person will often binge eat then use either laxative to get rid of the food they have eaten or make themselves sick. One eating disorder that you don't often hear about is overeaters, this is where a person is just addicted to food and eat large amounts and cannot control the ...  Read the complete review

I've heard of anorexia and bulimia and, to be completely honest, can't tell you the cause of the problem, I can guess, but I myself have never been a sufferer of this, you would tell this if you saw me aha. Last year, just before christmas, my daughter slipped into the habit of missing meals and then she stopped eating and wouldn't eat for days. I was very worried because she is also a martial artist and with vigorous exercise, I was scared she wouldn't have the energy to train and fight. I then noticed her going to the bathroom a lot, especially after meals and when I heard her retching in the bathroom, I confronted her and made her weigh herself confirming ...  Read the complete review

There are all sorts of reasons and causes for eating disorders that people have come up with. Many are somewhat plausible although others are just extreme and silly. I suffered from anorexia from quite a young age, until I was about 15, then I managed to kick it for good and now I eat rather well. I'm still quite underweight but I don't look sickly and I make sure I get enough calories to keep me healthy. My weight is no longer a great concern of mine so I can eat whatever I want to, although I am quite blessed with a fast metabolism so I don't gain weight easily. I personally believe my own anorexia was caused from a mixture of depression, ...  Read the complete review