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IELTS Writing Task 2
Anorexia Causes
Topic:
Nowadays many people are diagnoses with anorexia. What are the causes of this? What can be done to improve this situation? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your knowledge or experience.
Essay:
Of all the mental illnesses, anorexia has the highest morbidity rate, but many patients do not realize that they have serious problems with an eating disorder. While causes of anorexia can be identified, it seems that not much can be done to improve this situation.
Several factors may cause anorexia to happen, particularly to young women who desire to be thin. Firstly, anorexia may come from the effects of thinness culture in media, constantly reinforcing thin people as ideal stereotypes. Secondly, there are professions and careers that promote being thin and weight loss, such as modeling and ballet. Thirdly, peer pressure among friends and co-workers may play an influential role in encouraging self-starvation. Finally, one’s genetics may be part of the story; and in this case, genetics load the gun and environment pulls the trigger in potentially life-threatening eating disorders. As a result,those suffering from eating disorders are typical of an extremely low body weight relative to their height and body type, since they often believe that they appear much heavier than they really are.
Having said that, solutions to anorexia are never easy. To begin with, it is difficult for a person to accept that they have anorexia and it can be unlikely to engage them in whatever treatments, as the habit of resistance to eating disorders is hard to break. However, doctors say that, with the right combination of treatments, recovery is possible to different extents. It is generally recommended that patients seek anorexia recovery from a well-qualified team of eating-disorder specialists, consisting of a therapist, physician and nutritionist. But all these measures might turn out to be in vain unless patients are willing to help themselves. Anorexia being an awful thing, if they get themselves into it, then only they can get themselves out of it. Unfortunately, anorexia is a real mental disease and not something which goes away overnight.
In conclusion, it is one thing to understand the causes of anorexia, but it is quite another to cure this disease. Ironically, many people with anorexia do not think that they have the disease.
