Eating Disorders Week
This being National Eating Disorders Week, you would be interested in the human face of eating disorders. Why do people destroy their lives on purpose? Why does the ideal of a perfect body tear your mind to pieces? Why does food sometimes turn into your biggest enemy?These are questions that doctors and patients and their families are all trying to figure out.
I came across a devastating video on fitsugar.com. Featuring a movie called Thin, this site sure grabs yor attention. Lauren Greenfield is a photographer who wants to capture anorexic patients not as a fraction of the dying population but she also tries to trace a reason behind the dying urge to be thin. 10% of anorexics die and to die of starvation when you don’t have to is the predicament of so many young girls who chase perceptions of perfection that are ridiculously unachievable.
Strangely enough, binge eating disorder is the most common eating disorder and affects 4 million people in the U.S alone, 40% of the victims being men. When you start chomping away at potato chips or ice cream and finish foods in a matter of minutes you have a problem. The main reason for this kind of eating is stress. You take refuge in food;it helps you stop thinking. Read Ron Saxon’s story.
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April 9th, 2007 at 4:49 am
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