Writing Exercises: The Topic is Eating Disorders

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1St Topic: Eating Disorders
Many hold a belief that eating disorders are a lifestyle that a person chooses but they do not know that these are serious illnesses disrupts an individual's eating behavior. Being obsessed with food, increased body weight, and a distorted body shape indicates an eating disorder. The following are the major eating disorders:
* Anorexia nervosa. Individuals with this disorder perceive themselves to be overweight even when they are underweight. They are strict with the type and amount of food they consume and eat small quantities of food.
* Bulimia nervosa. Individuals with this disorder usually eat large amounts of food and the feeling of lacking control over what they eat. They later exhibit the binge-eating behavior where they compensate for overeating by forcing vomiting, fasting, or excessive use of diuretics.
* Binge-eating disorder. Individuals with this order lose control over their eating. Unlike bulimia nervosa where the victims compensate for their excessive eating or purging. Instead, they are obese (Crow et al., 2009).
Eating disorders is not a lifestyle of choice but a serious disease that can have devastating consequen...