Teenage Diseases

Final Paper
April 30th 2003


Topic: Anorexia Nervosa and the college student

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
-Alan Cohen

Each year, Anorexia Nervosa continues to rise among college students. High stress levels brought on from academics, peer pressure and insecurities about the future, compounded with the decrease in physical activity due to longer study hours and less time for physical exertion, leads to the “freshman 15 ,” or in many instances, an increase of 10 to 20 percent of normal body weight.
Anorexia Nervosa, perhaps the most deadly of all eating disorders comes from the Latin words meaning "nervous loss of appetite," and is characterized by a severe ...