Eating Disorders For Dummies
Chapter One
Understanding Eating Disorders
In This Chapter
* Understanding what an eating disorder is
* Finding out why eating disorders have been on the rise
* Seeing a better future through treatment and recovery
The term eating disorder sounds like something that refers to somebody
who doesn't eat right. And, in one sense, it certainly does. Some people
with eating disorders severely under-eat, to the point of risking their health
or their lives. Others repeatedly overeat in extreme ways and may do risky
things to get rid of the calories they've taken in. But what's not right about
the eating is far more complicated than calories and nutrition.
In this chapter you get an overall sense of the eating disorders as physical
and psychological syndromes: What do they look and feel like? Who gets
them? What is an eating disorder doing in a person's life? How is getting an
eating disorder driven by the culture, and how does that help us understand
people with eating disorders better?
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