Bulimia And Anorexia Nervosa :

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Term Paper Title	Bulimia And Anorexia Nervosa :
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Bulimia and Anorexia Nervosa :
An Examination of the Two
According to some estimates, as many as 85% of American women are dissatisfied with their weight. Few, if any, think that they are "too thin."  Those estimates were revealed at the American Psychological Association's conference on women's health in May 1994 (Driedger, 1994).  According to my reading, the consensus is quite clear that we are witnessing an epidemic of sub-clinical eating disorders. The term applies to women who do not meet the strict criteria for anorexia or bulimia, but nonetheless have a preoccupation with weight control that can set the stage for alternating between fasts and food binges and reliance on diet pills, laxatives, and diuretics. Such nutritional and pharmacological abuses increase the risk of infertility, osteoporosis, and electrolyte imbalances. They also erode self-esteem and set the stage for depression.
Many of the data relevant to this subject seems to reinforce conventional wisdom.  One survey revealed that women of Asian or African descent are less likely than American women to have eating disorders, but that as they assimilate into American culture they become increasingly prone to anorexia or bulimia.  Another determined that only 30% of eighth-grade girls were content with their bodies, compared to 70% of their male classmates (Schnur, 1995). A third found that anorexia and bulimia were more prevalent among college students concentrating in fields that emphasize body image, such as dance, acting, or gymnastics, than among those majoring in English or political science.
According to my research, few psychologists hesitate to attribute the increasing incidence of eating disorders and distortions of body image to our weight-obsessed culture that with each decade has offered a progressively pared-down icon of female self-obsession. The wasting away of the ideal woman was documented recently by one study I read about that determined that department-store dummies, which had once represented the statistically average female form, would now, if brought to life, be too thin to menstruate (Bower, 1993).  For many of us, mannequins, models, and movie stars have become annoying reminders of our own imperfections, creating a background of low-level anxiety against which we make our decisions about eating.  However, an estimated 15-30% of women are free of such concerns.
They eat when they are hungry, stop when they are full, and, according to one study are no heavier tha...

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