HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Eating Disorder, Etiology
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Social (beauty: the reason that so many young women develop eating disorders is the standard of beauty in television/movies/magazine of thin women, over time, eating disorders has gone down while the model"s weight has gone down. Interpersonal (family: relationships between people, look at the family as a kind of environment. In families where there is a high amount of expressed emotion you are more likely to see families with eating disorders (anorexia) Bulimia (disharm: human beings and their minds have evolved over time to be adapted, anorexia develops when young women want to withdraw from the competition from mates, do not want to be apart of the process. When you lose weight you lose breasts and hips loss of womenhood. Bulimia is still women who want to compete. Retain the markings of a feminine figure. Psychological (bruch, control: 1970s and 80s, if you want to understand anorexia you need to look at the typical girl who develops anorexia.