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Anyone can suffer from an eating disorder, and this includes males. The fashion industry puts forward certain images of males and some boys/young men feel they need to conform. It seems that aating disorders are more common in women but they certainly exist among men - and need to be treated.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoMen and boys DO get eating disorders, although not as often as women and girls. There is also a reluctance for some males to admit they have such a problem, because society tends to view it as a "female" problem. One reason it is more common with females is that there is so much pressure on women and girls to stay thin in this society, which isn't the case with males as much. One group of males that can sometimes have eating disorders is jockeys, because they have to stay under a certain weight in order to remain a jockey. But males who are not jockeys can have eating disorders, too.
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∙ 14y agoWomen have always been more focused on looks. For hundreds and thousands of years it has been important to look "good" and "beautiful" and to be accepted on a physical level by society. To conform to this, more women develop eating disorders. Since this standard and pressure is less for men, far fewer men develop eating disorders as a result.
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∙ 12y agoI believe men are being more subjected to eating disorders because, many of men have low self-estem. and some men are scared of being rejected by women so their solution is to eat awy their pain. Which causes alot of health issues, such as obesity.
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∙ 13y agoIn society and the media, women are more prone to descrimination or demands based on their looks. Women also naturally put more effort than men do into their looks, and will judge others more than their male counterparts based on appearances (both physcial and material). For this reason, current social demands to be thinner in many cultures are pressuing women to be unnaturally thin, and eating disorders tend to arise more commonly than with men, who are under less pressure to look a certain way.
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∙ 10y agoWomen tend to face more pressures from society over appearance, both on a social/personal and media level. Peer pressure and social pressure are large influences on low self esteem and low sense of satisfaction in appearance, both of which are large causes of eating disorders. Female bodies also change more rapidly due to aging and events like child birth, making the chances of anorexia higher as women try to lose the weight or return to the bodies they had when they were younger, usually which is not possible.
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∙ 15y agoThe ratio of women to men is about 10 to 1. Of every 11 people with an eating disorder, 10 are female and one is male.
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∙ 14y agoWomen are often judges far more about their looks and appearances than men are.
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Who does eating disorders effect?
Eating disorders can - and do - affect anyone. Typically, most eating disorders affected girls / women between the ages of 12 and 28, usually in more western nations.
What is eating disorder How many types waht are they What are treatments and What iis the implication for copunselling?
The two major eating disorders are anorexia and bulimia. Go to web site http://www.healthline.com/galecontent/eating-disorders-2 for more details on these and other eating disorders.
Where can I find more information about eating disorders?
A detailed booklet that describes the symptoms, causes, and treatments of eating disorders. Also there are many other websites that obtain this information.
Does eating disorders affect more women?
Yes. 90% of all eating disroder cases are found in women.
What year did eating disorders start becoming more common?
Eating disorder shvae existed for thousands of years (the first began to be officially diganosed in the late 1800s and early 1900s). As of the 1990s forwards, especially in the 2005+ years, a sharp rise of eating disorders has begun to be seen.
Where can you find more information on eating disorders?
Type in Eating disorders in a Google or Yahoo search - it somes up with heaps of websited. Or go to the library and search the catalouge Answer: Going along with the previous answer. Depending on what you are looking for, you'll have more luck finding about eating disorders if you specify what it is you are looking for. *If you are for it you can put it Pro eating disorders. *If you want know about health you can put in the helth of people with eating disorders. *If you want to know how to hide it if you have one put in how to hide eating disorders. *If you want to know how to get help for an eating disorder putting in getting help for my eating disorder. Those are the most common ones. Being specific helps you narrow down what excatly you want to know more about instead of scrolling threw hundreds of pages of things you might not or already know. Answer: Apart from the popular solutions like Wikipedia and National Institute of Health websites, there are quite a few decent resources available on the internet that provide information on eating disorders and other mental health conditions. Some websites provide in-depth information about different types of eating disorders, their causes, symptoms and treatments.
Where can I learn more about eating disorders online?
A good website is somethingfishy.com. There you will find information about various eating disorders. Anorexia is an abnormal perception that one's body is fat. Bulimia is similar but instead of not eating the person forces themselves to throw up all the food. There are other disorders in which a person compulsively overeats.
Which one of the eating disorders is more likely to affect men than women?
muscle dysmorphia
Why don't doctors treat people with eating disorders by placing electrodes in their brains?
Eating disorders are not caused by physical deformities or problems in the brain. Instead, they are more like fears and delusions. Therapies that work for eating disorders are meant to try and help the affected patient or individual learn to have a healthy relaionship with food again and to be healthy.
What age do people have eating disorders?
Eating disorders are most common problems of today world. And it can be at any age. The National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders quotes some disturbing facts regarding eating disorders: 8,000,000 or more people in the United States have an eating disorder, 90% are women. Victims may be rich or poor. Eating disorders usually start in the teens but may begin as early as age 8.
Why does anorexia always affect women'?
Anorexia does not always affect women. About 10% of anorexics are male. Anorexia - and most other eating disorders - are more common in women for a few reasons. Women naturally are more social, and thus focus on social pressures more then men. When social pressures demand thin-ness, women are more likely to develop eating disorders. A woman also experiences more changes in her body (pregnancy, for example) that can fuel body dislike and eating disorders. Women also tend to be more critical of each other than men are to each other. This harshness or bullying can lead to low self esteem and eating disorders, too.
Give you more information regarding anorexia and bulimia?
There is so much information out there about eating disorders. For more specifc answers or facts, please submit a more specified or detailed question. Some general facts are... *An estimated 1 in every 200 women suffers from an eating disorder. *Of that, 1 in every 250 is anorexic. *Almost all eating disroders occur between the ages of 12 and 25. *2/3 of eating disorders happen in western countries. *Eating disorders are steadily rising, and are one of the leading causes of preventable deaths in young / teenage people. *Eating disorders affect girls to boys, 9 to 1. *73% of people with eating disorders have substance abuse problems (drugs, alcohol, smoking, ect.) *20% of anorexics will die as a result of the disorder or directly from a complication. *Eating disorders can cause great bodily harm (bone decay, organ malfunction / failure, hair loss, dry skin, ect.) *Most people with eating disorders are often depressed and isolated.
