IM DONE !

YES! I am now officially done with my health final. I cant believe that its finally over.

Eating Responsibly

 

Eating responsibly is very important for your health . If you dont eat right you can end up with diseases such as anorexia:

Here is my work i looked up on anorexia, bulimia, and compulsive overeating:

       Anorexia
Anorexia is a very life-threatening condition. It can do a lot of bad things to your body and organs. You would never want to become an anorexic. There are a lot of bad things that happen to you. I will be telling you about what people look like and why they do it, some of the symptoms of anorexia, and what it does to your body.

The people that are anorexic are usually very skinny. You can see there bones. They are pretty much the saying skin and bones. I personally think it is disgusting. They are always thinking they are to fat and try and go on diets. It makes them get skinnier and skinnier until they cant lose anymore, yet they still try to. People usually do it because they think they are to fat and are never satisfied. Some people with anorexia are because they have a fear of just becoming fat. Most people with anorexia are teenage girls, but it does happen to teenage boys, men, and women.

Some of the signs of anorexia are that they have a disoriented body and have obsessive thoughts about food and weight. They have low self-esteem and allot of mood swings. They start to deteriorate from their family members and they don’t do very well in school. Some of the physical changes that you can see are: extreme weight loss, constipation, they have hair, or lanugo, growing all over their body, dry skin, and their hair starts to thin out. There are a lot more signs, but I cant name them all.

The last thing I will tell you about is what it can do to you. It can seriously put strain on many of the body’s organs. If you develop anorexia before adulthood you may suffer a stunt growth. People with anorexia become less fun and lose contact with a lot of people. They try to control everyone’s eating habits by trying to get them to overeat and make precise times at which every meal is served.

This is a very serious illness. It should never happen, yet it does. This is a very disgusting thing that people do. If you don’t watch out you can really hurt yourself. Anorexia is not a very good thing because you lose all your energy and never want to do anything. I would never do this to my body and I hope no one I know ever does it.

or bulimia:

 

 

                                                           Bulimia
Bulimia is another very horrible disease. It is often less about food, and has more to do with deep emotional issues and difficult feelings of lack of control. People with bulimia usually binge, or throw-up. There are 3 things I will be telling you about this illness. They are how it happens, why they do it, and some of the signs.

Bulimia usually starts when someone has issues that they have no other place to go. They usually are aware that they have the eating disorder, but don’t do anything to stop it. Some times the rapid eating can be stopped by someone interrupting them or their stomach hurts from over-extending. They all have different cycles when it comes to throwing-up. It may be repeated several times a week, and in horrible cases several times a day. They usually use this to feel like they are in control. Most cases are in Caucasians, but it is becoming a problem in the Hispanic and African American communities. 90% of the patients with this disorder are women. There are higher rates of people getting this disease when they are in sports where it is appealing to be skinny ( gymnastics, cheerleading, figure skating, etc.). After a while people with this problem will just automatically start throwing-up after every meal.

Some of the signs of bulimia are very easily spotted, while others not so much. A couple of them are: secrecy surrounding eating and the time period after eating ( trips to the bathroom after every meal). Another one is when they have odd eating behavior ( such as avoiding eating with others, skipping meals, and so forth). A really big one is eating an unusually large amount of food, with no change in their weight. These are some signs you should try to watch out for if you, have friends that you think may have this problem.

There are a lot of dangers with bulimia. Some of them are very disgusting and painful. You could tear your stomach wall ( due to overstuffing yourself). Constipation, flatulence, and stomachaches may occur. They will get a slower metabolism, weight gaining will happen overtime. Suffering from heart problems, teeth decay, puffy, swollen face, bleeding in the throat. These are all the dangers of bulimia, but the most important of them all is it may cause death.

Bulimia is a serious disease. It is not to be funny or laughed about. Real people have this problem and its sad. They usually will get into it and is very difficult to get out of it. Its even worse when they know they have the illness and don’t do anything about it.

or compulsive overeating:

 

 

                                             Compulsive overeating
Compulsive Overeating is a condition where people are addicted to food. They have frequent episodes of uncontrollable eating, even throwing-up, making them feel out of control. I will be telling you about 3 things they do. Those things are what they do, the signs of overeating, and when it starts.

When they do when they have this disorder is very serious. They eat at a very quick rate. They keep eating, even past the point of being uncomfortably full. They often take on in a grazing behavior by returning to pick at food over and over throughout the day. The outcome of this is a large number of calories being eaten even if they are small portions when they are eaten.

The signs of compulsive overeating may be difficult to see, but they are there. A couple of them are fear of not being able to control eating, while eating not being able to stop, isolation. They have a fear of eating around and with others. They usually go on continual dieting with a lot of popular dieting plans. Hiding food in irregular places is a big sign. These are a couple out of a lot of signs for compulsive overeating.

This eating disorder usually starts in childhood, when eating habits start to form. Most of the people with this disorder particularly never learned a effective way to deal with stressful situations, and instead leaned towards food as a way of blocking painful emotions away. Even though most people try to lose weight through dieting this usually causes more depression making them go back to the only way they know how to handle it, by eating. They start to throw-up again and unless the problem is resolved they will probably keep doing it.

Eating disorders are very bad and this is one of them. It starts out when you’re a kid and keeps on staying with you. You try to control it, but cant. It is a very sad ting that people go through. This disorder is somewhat like bulimia because they binge, but it has a completely different cause.

I hope these essays have helped you out and i have added a couple websites in them as you can see.