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Date Submitted: 10/18/2010 08:06 AM
Why do Children Suffer from Anorexia?
Group 4
Arwen張亞雯, Kate陳昭文, Nicky陳秋蓉, Vicky林玉春, Sandy張舒俞
1. Introduction
According to the film of Discovery, Skinny kids, there are more and more girls preferring to be thinner. In the film, these girls are all younger than 12 years old. In addition, they are in normal sizes. However, they still want to be thinner. Nowadays, more and more children have overweight problems. Why do these girls prefer to be thinner? Why is the most care-free period full of worry about weight? We are curious about this phenomenon and search some information about it. To our surprise, we find that some of children get anorexia. Anorexia is one of serious problems we have now. We knew that most victims of anorexia are teenagers, women, or girls. However, we are amazed that children also suffer from anorexia. Therefore, we would like to discuss about the reasons that caused children becoming victims of anorexia. First, we found the professional statistics to show that children are a part of victims of anorexia. Second, we attempted to look for examples to find reasons. We discover that peer pressure is one of reasons that we want to talk about. Furthermore, we also interpret this reason and effects caused by peer pressure with research reports. In conclusion, we hope that everybody could understand this issue more clearly and concern with them more frequently.
2. Contents
• Statistics
Anorexia for children becomes a worse and worse problem. According to the British government, the number of children admitted to hospital suffering from anorexia has risen 125 precent than last decade. How amazing it is!! More and more children go on diets in modern society, and thus some of them even lead to anorexia. 25 percent of 7 year olds had been on a diet according to Eating Disorders Foundation in Victoria, Australia and 40 percent of all nine year girls have dieted in America according to women’s treatment center for healthy...