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This 9 page paper discusses a peculiarly distressing form of the condition, that which afflicts infants and toddlers. It considers the importance of the issue, who it affects and how it impacts children’s development. It also considers what agencies are working on the problem and makes suggestions for further research and funding. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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which afflicts infants and toddlers. It considers the importance of the issue, who it affects and how it impacts childrens development. It also considers what agencies are working on the
problem and makes suggestions for further research and funding. Discussion About anorexia: Its importance, who is affected and how it relates to childrens development: Anorexia is identified as an "eating
disorder" but it is far more than that. It is a mental illness and one that can be life-threatening. Anorexics have a distorted body image so that they believe they
are overweight when in fact they are underweight. Some anorexics have been compared to the pictures of survivors from the Nazi concentration camps. Because they are incapable of seeing
their bodies realistically, it does little or no good to tell them that they look fine, or that they are too thin, because they cannot believe such statements. Its also
not possible for a family member, no matter how loving, to treat this condition successfully. It requires a professional and in difficult cases may require hospitalization. Make no mistake: this
condition can kill, and has. The web site MedicineNet.com has an in-depth article written and edited by physicians that says that although men can develop this disorder, approximately 95%
of anorexics are women (St?ppler, 2009). The disorder usually begins to appear in early adolescence, but it is also found in adults and in children as young as 6 (St?ppler,
2009). Most of the literature concentrates on adolescent girls, possibly because that tends to tie in with the idea of the media presenting unrealistic pictures of young women, and the
fact that girls try to look like their idols. But we are concerned here with younger children, and the focus has not been on them to the same extent as
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