Eating Disorder: Anorexia// CAUSE - EFFECT ESSAY

Anorexia

               In the world that we live in, where on every magazine cover, every TV show, and even in our room, we see beautiful, skinny girls that seem to have everything they want. Furthermore, many girls that are just beginning their adolescence feel that to be these perfect girls, they have to be skinny, so they turn to anorexia. Moreover, a person who suffers of anorexia aould show slowly the physical and psychological effects.

               Anorexia is a serious eating disorder and is mainly caused by the intense fear of becoming fat, this fear is so intense that anorexics have a distorted body image of themselves, leading them to believe they are fat, even if they are serously underweight. On the other hand, the consequiences are really not only painful but also mortal, so people who turn to anorexia suffer of physical and psychological effects.

             

               First, Oswen in his book "Why my daughter? mention the physical consequences "dramatic weight loss in a short period of time, skeletal look, lost of boddy muscle and fat, sunken eyes, dry, yellow or grey skin, thinning hair, hair growth on arms, legs and body parts in effort to keep heat in." It is easy to know who has become a victim of this eating disorder. Moreover, they suffer dizziness and headaches, complains of often feeling cold, fainting spells, inability to sleep, exhaustion and their menstruation stops.

              

               And second, pshychological effects are even worst than the latest mentioned; for example, anorexics have an obsession with weight and complaining if weight problems, obsession with continuous exercise, visible food restriction and sel-starvation, isolation and fear of eating around and with others, low self-steem, mood swings and depression. The last result is the death, a slow and painful death, which can be avoided just if anorexics realize they have a serious problem and accept people's help. Therefore, anorexia has caught many young girls even children who daily suffer of people's judgement and lack of patience form the society. 

              

               In conclussion, anorexia is one of the biggest problems in our society among teenager and children, although it seems to be a game at the beginnig, and parents do not give attention, at the end the effects are painful and mortal. So parents should be awake of their children in order to avoid suffering.