Essay On Extreme Dieting

Adolescents usually go hand in hand with self-destructive and risk-behaviours. Before the connection can be explained, two things need to be defined, adolescence and risk-behaviours.
Adolescence is the period following the onset of puberty during which a young person develops from a child into an adult. In simpler terms a teenager. The current slide (slide 2) shows how the body experiences changes from a child to an adult.
A risk-behaviour is a lifestyle activity that places a person at an increased risk of suffering from a particular condition, illness, injury or even death. There are many types of risk behaviours, and many that teenagers commit, but this presentation will focus on four of the most prominent risk activities. They are Alcohol

Many people think that dieting is only when a person wants to lose weight; this is only partly true as dieting has anything to do with food. Sometimes the need to lose some weight is good, but often the want to lose weight becomes obsessive. There are three main types of eating disorders that stem from extreme dieting. The first is Anorexia Nervosa, this is a psychiatric disorder characterised by an irrational fear of weight gain, self-starvation and a distorted body image. The person’s obsession with losing weight and limiting food intake becomes so bad that their health is compromised and they run the risk of dying. Secondly, Bulimia Nervosa, an emotional disorder characterised by distorted body image and an obsessive desire to lose weight. The person participates in binges, which are consuming of excessive amounts of food in one sitting, and the tries to rid them self of the food by fasting, excessive exercise, vomiting and/or laxatives. Lastly there is Binge eating, which is similar to Bulimia Nervosa, except the person does not try to rid them self of the food, they rather try to diet in a somewhat healthy way by trying to control their binges. This often results in failure and leads to even larger binges. This is one of the main causes of