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Introduction
There are two important diseases that have become very common among young people.
o Anorexia nervosa
o Bulimia nervosa
Body
· Anorexia nervosa
o Eating disorder that consist of
o Reason why this eating disorder start
· Bulimia nervosa
o Eating disorder that consist of
o Reason why this eating disorder start
Conclusion
· There is one thing those eating disorders have in common, which is that they are a serious diseases that need to be treated in order to be out of them.
ANOREXIA NERVOSA WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AS BULIMIA NERVOSA
There are two important diseases that have become very common among young people, especially women. Those are anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa; which are completely different, but many people tend to think that anorexia and bulimia are the same because of the consequences that people with one of those diseases get.
Anorexia is an eating disorder which consists of maintaining a kind of normal weight by eating gradually very little portions of food until the person stops eating totally for whiles. As the National Institute of Mental Health (2011) suggests that many people with anorexia nervosa see themselves as overweight, even when they are clearly underweight. So eating, food, and weight control become obsessions because people with anorexia have an intense fear of gaining weight. There are many different reasons why people suffer this problem, but the most common is because those people want to achieve an “ideal body”, that most of the times are influenced by models and famous people. In fact there are some models that have died because of anorexia nervosa like Anna Carolina Reston who was just 21 year-old when she died in 2006.
Bulimia nervosa is another eating disorder which consists of binge-eating then the vomits all that food or by purging behaviors such as self-induced vomiting, abuse of laxatives, diuretics, etc. As the National Alliance of Mental Illnesses (2011) argues that binge eating is the rapid consumption of an unusually large amount of food in a short period of time, which is what happens with people who have this eating disorder. The precise reasons why people suffer bulimia nervosa is unknown but as NAMI (2011) claims there is some evidence that obesity in adolescence or familiar tendency toward obesity predisposes an individual to the development of the disorder. Among famous people there is a very young actress and singer who stated in the first months of this year to have suffered bulimia nervosa since she was 8 years old, she is Demi Lovato.
Anorexia nervosa is as bad as bulimia nervosa. Both eating disorders have terrible consequences which involve the sufferers and their families. But there is one thing those eating disorders have in common, which is that they are a serious diseases that need to be treated in order to be out of them. But more than just a treatment people with those eating disorders need the support of their family and relatives inasmuch as they are the ones who are very close to the people with the eating disorders.
National Alliance on Mental Illnesses. (2011). Anorexia Nervosa. NAMI, Mental Illnesses. Retrieved from http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?Section=By_Illness&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=102975
National Alliance on Mental Illnesses. (2011). Bulimia Nervosa. NAMI, Mental Illnesses. Retrieved from http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?Section=by_illness&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=102972
National Institute of Mental Health. (2011) Eating Disorders. NIMH. Retrieved from http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/eating-disorders/complete-index.shtml
