Eating disorders - how are they caused? Reviews

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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

The media seems to be obsessed with eating disorders at the moment. Every night you can more or less guarantee that there will be some kind of documentary on about 'half ton' people or skeletal celebrities alongside 'experts' giving their advice on how to lose weight, embrace your curves or dress to slim. This creates a somewhat confusing message ...  Read the complete review

There are many and varied arguments as to the cause of eating disorders, such as anorexia, bulimia and compulsive eating, and it seemd unlikely that we'll ever find a definitive answer. It seems to me that there are many factors involved in how people develop these terrible conditions. In recent years there has been so much media ...  Read the complete review

Here's my personal experience, i won't go too in depth as its still hard to talk about eight years on. I think that there are many causes for eating disorders, the media is quite a large part but, not all of it. Celebrities are plastered all over the media, magazines, billboards, TV, Film, Newspapers etc. Every other month or so each of the ...  Read the complete review

After reading a few reviews on this topic I just thought I'd share my story with you and please note that this is the first time ever to have written it down or shared it with so many people that I have never met! I have suffered with anorexia for ten years (since I was 14), now even though I can control it now for a few years I was ...  Read the complete review

I personally think the media is the first and only cause of the eating disorders. It projects to us images of film stars and singers all slim and toned, and as soon as someone puts on a bit of weight they get plastered all over magazines and made a show of. Think of Lily Allen, who is skinny now, whereas I thought she looked great before. They try ...  Read the complete review

It's an unfortunate fact that despite numerous claims the media is to blame for the rise in eating disorders, nobody actually knows how they are caused. The closest the so called experts have come to solving this question, is to understand what type of person is predisposed to falling victim to such a disorder. Generally, it seems that ...  Read the complete review

So recently we have heard about Brazilian model Ana Carolina Reston again, the stick thin model to have starved herself to death at the age of 21 in the quest for the 'perfect' figure. With a body mass index of just 13.4, (the ideal being 22 and 19 is considered being underweight) she had reached the point where all her organs just could not keep ...  Read the complete review

When I studied eating disorders in psychology, there were many different conclusions given to us. The most obvious, and likely, being the media. It's easy to blame the media. Specifically promoted in magazines and adverts are skinny people wearing clothes which look good on them... Clothes which we can sometimes be led to assume will only suit us ...  Read the complete review

As far as how eating disorders in general are caused, I wouldnt like to be so presumptious as to hazard a guess. I have no idea what is running through other peoples minds when they make the decisions they do, only what I know, and what I have experienced. I was mixed up in my teens, riddled with self loathing, and an absolute ...  Read the complete review

Hundreds of people suffer (or have suffered) from eating disorders. I admit that when I was younger (about 11, so quite young) I suffered from anorexia. As I child I was chubby. Not fat, just puppy fat that I would eventually grow out of. But that wasn't what I thought. I did think I was fat and later developed an eating ...  Read the complete review

Having struggled with my own food/weight/body issues for 9 years now I could write books full of my opinions on this topic. So I'll try to keep it short and to the point. How are eating disorders caused? I honestly don't believe it's as black and white as some people think... There is a great pressure within our society to conform to ...  Read the complete review

As a child ive always been very active and fit, i played sport most days, and never really thought about what i ate. I was a thin child, with a high metabolism. However, when i reached 15, puberty kicked in, and though i still exercised and was active, I began to feel fatter than the other kids in my year. I hated my legs especially ...  Read the complete review

In our society it's so common that women HAVE to be skinny, i'm sure most girls have at one point in their lives been called fat (even by a loved one) and it hurts, it hurts way more than anything else in the world because of the simple fact that well girls are particularly sensitive about thier weight;but the truth is if you do get called fat ...  Read the complete review

Ok, well it's past two o'clock in the morning and I'm very, very tired and I need to get up quite early in the morning. I am so into this subject though, that I simply can't wait until tomorrow to write this, so if I am very tired tomorrow, fall down the stairs and slice open my head on an inconveniently placed spike at the bottom of the stairs ...  Read the complete review

Let it be a shock to a lot of you, but yes me, myself and I have suffered from eating disorder. However I have a different story. I suffered with eating disorder when I was around 10years old, therefore I did not know it was actually a problem forcing my self not to eat (I was just a baby lol). What caused me to stop eating?? Well ...  Read the complete review