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Prevention of Eating Disorders

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Sort Desciption: Prevention is a topic that has received little attention in the literature on eating disorders. This is ironic because many researchers and health care workers suggest eating disorders are more difficult to treat the more ...

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Prevention is a topic that has received little attention in the literature on eating disorders. This is ironic because many researchers and health care workers suggest eating disorders are more difficult to treat the more deeply rooted anorexic or bulimic behaviours become in an individuals lifestyle. Furthermore, most would agree that helping individuals avoid being affected by the factors perpetuating eating disorders (like starvation and nutritional deprivation) is a crucial factor in preventing eating problems from occurring in the first place. Prevention is a term that can refer to either the elimination of factors causing eating disorders more specifically called primary prevention or the early detection and treatment of eating problems known as secondary prevention. Primary prevention focuses on eliminating the causes or predisposing factors, while secondary prevention addresses reducing the causes and the perpetuating factors of eating problems. Primary prevention The goal of primary prevention is to reduce the incidence of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Finding effective ways of approaching primary prevention is a problem because we dont fully understand what causes eating disorders in the first place. However, we can still address ways of minimizing common social, familial and individual factors, like pressures to be thin, communication problems within the family, and self-esteem issues that are generally recognized as leading to eating disorders Minimizing social pressures A number of strategies can be developed to minimize the impact of social pressures, especially pressures on women, to be thin. For example, we can teach our children not to be pre-occupied with their weight. This means learning to accept a broad range of body sizes. ...

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