Part one of term paper
Eating disorders are devastating behavioral maladies brought on by a complex interplay of factors, which may include emotional and personality disorders, family pressure, a possible genetic or biologic susceptibility, and a culture in which there is an overabundance of food and an obsession with thinness. Eating disorder also may be defined, ...

Part two of term paper
... strict dieting or fasting, or excessive exercise. Although the disorder can affect men, the preponderance of people with are female adolescents and young women. Many are self-critical, perfectionist women from high achieving families. There are two subtype of nervosa: purging and nonpurging, it occurs in 0.5 percent to 2.0 percent of adolescents and young adult women. Purging type: this subtype describes presentations in which the person has regulatory engaged in self-induced vomiting or the ...