Eating Disorders in Women of Color



Eating Disorders in Women of Color

Introduction

People, from all walks of life, face eating disorders. All ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds, and people of all genders, face the problem; it is not only white women of upper or middle class who suffer, as previously thought. Disorder in eating and body dissatisfaction's differing experiences can be widely possessed by women of color because of the meanings of weight and food, and because of the ethnicity, race, and gender difficulties, built-in. Since, they are short of a perceptive of these dissimilarities, in women of color, clinicians may miss ...