Starving for Acceptance In today's society, where physical characteristics are used to measure beauty and success, people are willing to push their bodies to extremes to achieve physical perfection. As an overweight woman, I may be considered a failure of society's beauty test. ... Although the disorders are less common among young people who are Asian and black, there is evidence that blacks are more likely to develop bulimia than anorexia. ... These medications are beneficial because they treat the psychological symptoms (?... The most frequent cause of death in anorexics is s...

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The constant pressure placed on athletes by family, coaches and their communities, may pressure them to engage in unhealthy practices in order to appease those expectations and achieve success on the field. There are often strong beliefs in these sports that lower weight athletes perform better than their heavier peers. ... Even in the early stages of muscle atrophy, if a starving person is exercising it could put too much strain on the body's organs resulting in a possibility of organ failure. ... In fact it has been said (who said it) that many athletes have higher self-esteem than i...

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Children are exposed to so much more these days. Rather than playing outside, they tend to park themselves in front of the television or a laptop. ... After some time, she eliminated more and more foods from her diet and began exercising excessively. ... For reference, a BMI of less than 18.5 is officially classified as underweight. ... It is more of a catalyst than many of us realize. ...

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