With live in today high standards of beauty, falsly influenced by the media, and it brings on the eating disorders that so many are effected by with disorder such as anorexia, bulimia and other eating disorders.

Anorexia, bulimia and other eating disorders are problems simply for the fact that sex sells, and advertisers know it. By projecting impossible images for one to model their body after, companies can more accurately market to individuals who feel that they have a problem with the way that their body is. Read the rest of this entry »

Bulimia, also called bulimia nervosa, is a psychologial eating disorder which mostly hit girls in the age of 15 to 25 years. It?s rare but it happen also to boys. Studies indicate that by their first year of college, 4.5 to 18 percent of women and 0.4 percent of men have a history of bulimia and that as many as 1 in 100 females between the ages of 12 and 18 have anorexia. Read the rest of this entry »

Osteoporosis is a condition which makes the bones weak and causing them to break easily. As the bones are fragile the slightest movement can break them, especially joints like the hip, spine and wrists. Increasing age makes you prone to this disease, men over fifty and post-menopausal women are the most common patients of osteoporosis. This breakage of bone occurs within a couple years of menopause due to reduction in estrogen levels. After years of erosion the bones give away causing pain, spinal deformity and fractures. Read the rest of this entry »