Or do you feel so guilty after eating that you have to work out? ... Second is feeling out of control during a binge, and eating beyond the point of comfortable fullness. ... Research has found that people who suffer from an eating disorder are generally from white, middle and upper class backgrounds (McClelland 42). ... The number of people with eating disorders is rising but he age of onset is falling (Jones 547). ... She told her mom that a boy in her class said she was fat, and now she was going on a diet (Epel 74). ...

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Few psychoanalytic concepts have been used as widely as the concept of instinct for explaining abnormal development. Under this orientation, obesity and other eating disorders are conceived of as resulting from disturbances during the oral phase. Yet the concept of instinct has been widely debated. ...

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The New England Journal of Medicine's New Year's editorial says, "As common efforts to lose weight are in the general population, they are virtually ubiquitous among adolescent girls and young women Although many girls caught up in these practices [bizarre, severe diets and anorexic and bulimic behaviors] are well aware of the hazards, they would rather risk death than fall short in their attempts to attain the contemporary esthetic ideal of extreme thinness" (Solovay 2000, 39-40). ...

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