Obesity is increasing at an epidemic rate in the United States - 1.3% a year for women over 20. ... They gave me a Weight Watchers cookbook and a scale. It was devastating to me. "Years later, when I was in college, my mother acknowledged how terrible it had made me feel. She explained to me that, at the time, she was very depressed about my weight. ...
Abstract This paper is designed for you and I to learn more about Eating Disorders. What you are about to learn one day will maybe save your life. Hopefully you will never encounter what is called an Eating Disorder. Eating Disorders mostly consist of, Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Obesity an...
Among Filipinos, Diabetes Mellitus is the number eighth leading cause of mortality based on DOH (2009) and has a prevalence rate of 7.1% in 2008, (Quizon, 2008). ... As for myself, I need to fully understand a disease in order for me to decide on how to help the patient manage his condition. ... It allows me to understand more my needs. It made me realize that I need to protect myself from the future because of the thought that, what will I do now will always reflect in the future. If I will have the unhealthy living this time, sooner or later it will be me to suffer. ...
Clinical Observations The need to examine the tacit assumptions about hunger forced itself upon me during the psychiatric and psychoanalytic study and treatment of a large group of patients suffering from anorexia nervosa or developmental obesity. ... Pursuit of this inquiry led to the to me startling discovery that hunger, the recognition of nutritional needs, was not an innate capacity of the organism, but something that contained important elements of learning. ...
