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Anorexia Statistics – Is it Becoming a New Trend?
Anorexia statistics continue to prove that girls and boys, men and women are still dying to be thin. This need for control destroys not only the lives of the anorexics themselves, but the lives of those around from family to friends to coworkers, and only serves to further propagate the Medias’ unrealistic example of the “perfect” woman or man.
Anorexia statistics continue to prove that the unhealthy behaviors of anorexics are not fading away, but in some case they are actually be on the rise, especially in the male population. These behaviors include, but are not limited to refusing to eat, refusing to eat in front of people, dismorphic or unrealistic view of their own bodies, and exercising to extremes. These people are not only starving themselves to the point of death or near death, but should they survive and become recovering anorexics, they have often damaged vital organs and glands to the point where they are beyond repair.
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Eating Disorders and Mental Health
Since we were born, we were all fed images of perfect looking people in perfect little worlds and how we wish we were like them, or at least looked like them. To most of us, beauty comes in the form of being thin. Why thin? Because that is our perception of what beautiful is. If you are thin, you are beautiful and if you’re fat, you’re just plain ugly.
Thousands of women and men face this kind of weight discrimination, whereby first impressions on them are based on how they look. Women face more of this kind of discrimination compared to men, and they are more prone in facing eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia. Eating disorders afflict millions of people and every year, thousands of them die from this silent disease.
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Facts About Crohn’s Disease
Crohn’s disease, named for American physician Burrill Crohn who was among the first to describe it, may effect any point of the digestive tract. It is most often associated with the intestine, which can become inflamed and ulcerated. Symptoms include abdominal pain, diarrhea — possibly containing blood, and fever. The condition may also be called regional enteritis or granulomatous enteritis or colitis.
The exact cause of Crohn’s disease is not known. There is some speculation that it is related to a bacterial infection, but this is unproven. In any case, the illness is not contagious, although a family history of the disease is one thing doctors look for when making a diagnosis. Diagnostic images such as X-rays, colonoscopies, and CAT scans allow the location of outbreaks and determination of their severity.
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