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Anorexia and Bulimia Websites

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and physical stability of todays female adolescents. Typically, young girls who binge are overweight, but this particular eating disorder can affect those who are average-sized, as well. "Body  dissatisfaction or low body esteem has been reported to predict disordered eating among young women in the United States and other western countries. Since body dissatisfaction and cognitive appraisals  of ones body, such as weight perception, are considered to be culturally mediated, recent investigations have compared the level of body dissatisfaction as well as its relationship to disordered eating,  across different ethnic and cultural groups" (Mukai et al, 1998, p. 751). With the overwhelming peer pressure inherently associated with adolescence, young girls will consider virtually any quick fix  to shed the extra pounds that make them stand out as being different. Only in contemporary society, where technology has become both a blessing and a curse, could these  vulnerable girls access Web sites that teach them how to be bulimic and anorexic, creating an entirely new wrinkle in the ongoing fight against eating disorders.  What exactly motivates people to lose control over their food consumption is an issue that is still not fully understood by the medical community. What is  known about those who suffer from such eating disorders as anorexia and bulimia, however, is enough to establish a commonsensical theory: depression, sadness, boredom, anger, anxiety and other negative emotions  can cause an episode. An impulsive personality is also associated with those who have been diagnosed as having an eating disorder. Unquestionably psychologically related, other mental conditions -  chemical and metabolic imbalances - can stimulate eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia, as well. Taking all of this into consideration, one can readily understand how instructional Web