Unclear of an Eating Disorder.

          Most people mistaken an eating disorder as a bad eating habit or a person having trouble with how their body looks. When someone mentions that they aren’t happy with their own appearance based on what others say, it can affect or trigger a person to starve themselves and start to have an eating disorder. Eating Disorders are illnesses that can cause severe disturbance to the person’s eating behavior. (Nimh.nih.gov, 2016) If you have a loved one or just know of someone that could have an eating disorder, they could be feeling a combination of things that researchers and doctors had discovered to lead up to an eating disorder. The combination of biological, behavior and some social factors that the person is dealing with. (Kam and Boards, n.d.)

          How does an eating disorder start or what causes a person to have one? Some researchers had theories that it could come from parents being too strict or too controlling, or from a person wanting to be thin or skinny. (Farrar and Baker, 2014). People who have an eating disorder have a mental illness, it’s not just a condition they have. Has it ever crossed your mind that an eating disorder could be in your family genetics? Researchers are trying to identify the DNA variations that link the risk of eating disorders that develop in families with one, two or multiple people with this disorder. (Nimh.nih.gov, 2016)

          Eating disorders can happen with children and teens but most parents don’t always recognize it. We all know that children are always picky with the food they eat. Children who have this illness change in their eating habits drastically and it could lead to a serious, or even a life-threatening health problem. (Kam and Boards, n.d.) Just like women this disorder happens with men as well, but at a higher rate by 10 million. Some researchers are still figuring out what the main cause is, but several factors can cause an eating disorder. Here is a link to a video as well to example more about what an eating disorder is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=31&v=LhCntzXAcA4

Citations:

          Kam, K. and Boards (n.d.). Eating Disorders in Children and Teens.

 https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/eating-disorders/features/eating-disorders-children-teens#1 . Accessed 25 Sep. 2018

         Nimh.nih.gov. (2016). NIMH » Eating Disorders.

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/eating-disorders/index.shtml#part_145410 . Accessed 25 Sep. 2018

          Farrar, T. and Baker, J. (2014). Causes of Eating Disorders ........What We Know For Sure.

https://www.mirror-mirror.org/causes-of-eating-disorders.htm . Accessed 25 Sep. 2018

          National Eating Disorders Association. “Eating Disorders: What are They?” YouTube. 3 Aug. 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=31&v=LhCntzXAcA4