What Are Eating Disorders?
Eating disorders are identified as certain persistent eating behaviours that can negatively affect a person’s life in many ways. These disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating directly impact a person’s health, their emotions, and their ability to function in their day-to-day lives. With appropriate treatment, however, many individuals return to healthy eating habits and in some cases can reverse the damage done to their bodies as a result of eating disorders. Who Develops Eating Disorders? In most cases, teens and young adults are the most prone demographic to develop eating disorders, however, others in their adulthood can suffer from eating disorders also. Most individuals who suffer from eating disorders focus too much on their bodies: their weight, their shape, and the way they are seen...