Abstract

The purpose of the present this research paper was to determine the extent of body image dissatisfaction and disordered eating attitudes in dancers. An additional purpose was to determine the impact of the exposure to socio-cultural factors on body image dissatisfaction and disordered eating attitudes in dancers.

Table of Contents

Abstract1

Introduction3

History of Eating Disorder4

Eating Disorder5

Body Image6

Types of Eating Disorder6

Anorexia Nervosa6

Bulimia9

Binge Eating Disorder10

Diabulimia10

Evaluation of Eating Disorder Models10

Recommendations on a Balanced Food12

Prevalence of Risk in the Ballerina13

Feeding Behavior and Folic Acid Deficiency14

Advice for Young Ballerinas and Young Female Athletes14

Works Cited15

Eating Disorder in Dancers

Introduction

In the past, eating disorder issues in dancers have been studied because of the high percentages of young population experiencing body image dissatisfaction and disordered eating patterns. These issues are now appearing in younger populations, who are more inclined toward dancing and athletics. Surveys of school populations reported that 5% of adolescent girls have eating disorders and that by the girls are nine years old, they experience body image dissatisfaction and want to diet, regardless of their actual body weight. This is the fact because the dancers specially the ballet dancers have to fit in for the practice since they are four years. Clinicians are becoming increasingly aware that dancers as young as five experience anorexia nervosa, which are the eating disorders.

The highest rates of diet, weight concerns, eating disorders, and cosmetic surgeries are associated with the representation of the thin female ideal society. However, pressure for thinness, urged that the main culprit of disordered eating problems, the problem centers on a woman's obsession with obtaining a slim body, and can reinforce demeaning notions of a young, naive controlled by the image of the media. This approach also captures the complexity of girls and women from the experiences of established and a wide range of etiological factors that influence the body's regulatory practices of girls and women from diverse backgrounds. Issues of globalization, immigration, acculturation, modernization, transition, and identity along dimensions of gender, race, class, ability and sexual orientation may play a greater role in contributing to the issues eating and body image dissatisfaction.

Several theories have been proposed in an effort to explain why eating disorders are, but no evidence has been named as the main cause of any eating disorder. Most modern theorists believe that biological, social, cultural and psychological factors interact to contribute to the development and maintenance of eating disorders. And these causes can be influenced by any of the following: biological influences, family, social, cultural and psychological.

History of Eating Disorder

Eating disorders stems from the 14th century and the nineteenth century are described as modern concepts, by psychiatrists at the time. The first case closer to an eating disorder has been known since the fourteenth century, in which a princess named Wilgenfortis, refuses to eat any food, in order to be so thin that no man wants it. By the eighteenth century comes from an order of nuns called "The holy fast", they worshiped the Virgin Mary by fasting, there is no further information on these nuns, but ...