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The Four Types Of Eating Disorders

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Eating disorders involve disruption in eating behaviors, which can be classified within the three major eating disorders, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder, that can result in death. Eating disorder’s have had an increasing prevalence since the 1960s and “have spread insidiously over the ensuing decades” (Barlow, 269). Research shows that adolescent girls are more likely to encounter eating disorders than adolescent males (Santrock, 371).
The eating disorder anorexia nervosa is a serious disorder that involves “the relentless pursuit of thinness through starvation” (Santrock, 370). This disorder typically begins in the early to middle adolescence years of females. The four main characteristics of anorexia nervosa

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