Eating Disorders have become a serious issue in the past twenty-five years. Many people have been diagnosed for having an eating disorder. More teens out of any other age group suffer from it. Sports, peer-pressure, and low self-esteem can cause teens to be driven to eating disorders.Anorexia and Bulimia are the two main types of eating disorders. Anorexia is the self-starving behavior that can lead to severe health problems and even death. Bulimia is when a binge/purge cycle is used or laxatives are used at an excessive amount. Anorexia and bulimia affect a person’s thoughts and feelings as well as his or her body (Erlanger 18). Anorectics starve themselves to lose weight. Experts have described how anorectics seem incapable of noticing that they have lost weight. They might loss fifty pounds and still think they are to fat. They eat very little, if any at all, but most of them claim that they do not get hungry. Most of them also exercise constantly as well as not eating. It is a very dangerous disease. About one out of every ten victims of anorexia result in death (Internet site).Bulimia is also a very sever eating disorder. About half of the victims of anorexia victims also suffer from bulimia (Internet site). Most bulimics use the binge and purge cycle and/or excessive laxatives. Bulimics first binge, which is eating as much food as they want at one time. In fact, bulimics take in around 23,400 (sometimes-even close to 5,000) calories each time they binge. The normal adult takes in around 2,500 calories a day (Epstien 67). After the binge is the purge. They either make themselves vomit or take laxatives. Many health problems can occur to a result of bulimia. The vomiting causes sores in the mouth an eventually rots teeth. Vomiting and use of laxatives create digestive disturbances or muscle spasms in the hands and feet and because they take in so much food their abdominal muscles may be stretched, prod...
