Eating Disorders

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-Eating disorders are abnormal eating habits that could potentially threaten your health and life 
-Anorexia Nervosa: In which individuals believe they are fat even though they may be dangerously thin and restrict their eating to the point of starvation
-Bulimia Nervosa: Individuals eat excessive amounts of food and then purge by utilizing laxatives or vomiting
-Binge Eating Disorder: Individuals have out of control eating patterns but do not purge; I myself experience this on a daily basis but I do not see it as a problem, at least up until now
-All three are extremely dangerous and you only end up putting your health at risk for a society with low standards, morals and values
-The Anorexia and Bulimia disorders occur in the minds of weak-minded individuals who unfortunately care way too much about their appearance and if so much desire to "loose weight" are not taking the appropriate routes to do so
-Unfortunately these eating disorders are mostly common in women and unhealthy women can produce unhealthy children
-I view this mainly as a mental issue, and feel that if people could learn to not care so much about their appearance and focus more on their health then things would automatically improve for them and this is necessarily all they need to do which would most likely require some counseling but it definitely needs to grow within them first

5 Vocab Words  

Demurrage (n) -the detention port of a vessel by the shipowner, as in loading or unloading, beyond the time allowed or agreed upon   
Didactic (adj) -intended for instruction 
Mediate (v) -to settle disputes as an intermediary between parties; reconcile  
Pedantic (adj) -overly concerned with minute details or formalism
Sententious (adj) -given to excessive moralizing; self-righteous