National Eating Disorder

I think that in America, there are more eating disorders than in any other country. America has so many fast food chains that people go to everyday and a lot of people use that fast food as a comfort food. In the Omnivore's Delimia, it talks about how the convince of fast food, fast and easy to get, and how many people use it as a reward system for kids, or use it just to be happy, but not realizing the consequences over time. I think people should be more health consence and be more aware of what they are eating, and eating disorders would not be a problem. Most eating disorders occur with other mental disorders such as depression, substance abuse, and anxiety disorders. The three most common eating disorders are: anorexia, nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder. Research shows that more than 90 percent of people who have eating disorders are women between the ages of 12 and 25. But there is a increasing number of older women and men who have these disorders, and thousands of boys are also effected by these eating disorders. www.mentalhealth.gov