Category: Importance of Food

We live in a time of reckoning when it comes to body image and particularly female body image. From marketing campaigns to hashtag campaigns on Twitter that admonish fat-shaming, to international fashion brands incorporating women with healthy body weight into their print and television advertising, it seems like society, as a whole, has only recently…

There are a lot of illnesses, diseases, and addictions in America today. The one we hear the most about is cancer. Cancer has so many variations and forms. Some are curable and some are fatal. The one disease and addiction we dont hear and know about is eating disorders. Eating disorders are a very serious…

Living in a culture where body image is an important component to a persons character, the perfect body isnt so perfect after all. Do we the people currently living in this society know how to help those who are affected? The consistent and excessive effort that many people put into weight loss eventually and most…

An eating disorder is a serious and potentially life-threatening mental illness that causes a person to have an abnormal relationship with food as well as an obsession with their body weight or shape. It is not considered to be a life choice nor a cry for attention. Eating disorders can occur in both men and…

Women athletes are likely to be monitored for eating disorders these days. Representatives of aesthetic sports are more likely to establish an eating disorder than different type of female athletes (Sungot-Borgen & Torstveit, 2004). ‘The prevalence of excessive training loads and the over emphasis on thinness is increasing in all aesthetically shaped sports’ (Boros, 2009,…

According to statistical summaries provided by Our World in Data, mental health illnesses have experienced a worldwide surge in the recent few decadesnot only did the total number of suffering people increases by about 45% globally, the areas of infliction have also crawled out from developed countries to those less developed (Ritchie). It is never…