Eating Disorder Definitions

What causes an eating disorder?flowers

There are a number of factors but no one single thing that causes eating disorders. It is a combination of behavioral, emotional, interpersonal and social factors.

While eating disorders involve food, food is not the root of the problem. Eating disorders are a preoccupation with food, but they involve much deeper problems than an obsession with weight and food. Dealing with one's food problem often offers an outlet for the other problems one is trying to deal with and control.

Because one cannot control some aspect of their life or environment, they try and control their eating and weight. Unfortunately, the consequences of these behaviors is emotionally and physically damaging to one's body and to one's self-esteem.