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Thesis, Introduction and Outline

Thesis Statement

Preliminary thesis statement: It is problematic that orthorexia nervosa is a little known mental health issue due to the increased prevalence, the excessive pursuit of healthy lifestyles and the shared symptoms with other eating disorders.

Revised Thesis statement: Orthorexia nervosa is a little known mental health issue, it is necessarily to bring up individual’s awareness due to the increased prevalence, the excessive pursuit of healthy lifestyles and the shared symptoms with eating disorders.

Introduction

With the people’s increasing awareness of healthy lifestyle and body images, people are encouraged to adopt healthy diets to achieve certain goals. However, it is problematic if individuals applies extreme approaches, for example, starvation and food restrain in order to achieve their ideal body types and lifestyles. Students may show symptoms of Orthorexia Nervosa while maintaining their lifestyle. Orthorexia Nervosa is a type of mental disorders, individuals tend to have an obsession of eating healthfully. (Tremelling, K., Sandon, L., Vega, G. L., & McAdams, C. J., 2017, para. 1) Individuals are only willing to consume food they considered “perfect” and “pure” for their body. Such delusions leads to harmful results (Marta Plichta, 2020) O.N. might seems similar to anorexia since their identical ultimate goal is to achieve their ideal body weight, however, anorexia tendency is to limit the quantity of food consumption; whereas O.N. tendency focuses on the quality of the food. Research demonstrate that individuals with O.N. tendency shows less awareness than other disordered eating patterns such as anorexia, since O.N. sometimes is being seen as a lifestyle choice. (Simpson, C. C., & Mazzeo, S. E., 2017, para. 4&5) Orthorexia nervosa is a little known mental health issue, it is necessary to bring up individual’s awareness due to the increased prevalence, the excessive pursuit of healthy lifestyles and the shared symptoms with eating disorders. My research paper will be discussing the importance to spread out the awareness of this matter, its correlation with other eating disorders, and the overly emphasis on healthy lifestyle.

Outline

· Argument 1: increasing prevalence

1. The research suggested that a higher number of females are into compensatory behaviors compared to males, and the ratio is 31% females and 29% males (Dunn, 2019).

2. Research also declared smaller gender difference in eating disorders.

3. Certain personalities put individuals at risk of O.N. (Parra-Fernández, M., Rodríguez-Cano, T., Onieva-Zafra, M., et al., 2018)

1. Quote “their drive for thinness (17.1% vs 2.1%), bulimia (2.6% vs 0%), body dissatisfaction (26.3% vs. 12.4%), perfectionism (14.5% vs 4.8%), interoceptive awareness (13.2% vs 1.3%), asceticism (15.8% vs 3.7%) and impulsiveness (9.2% vs 1.9%)”

· Argument 2: excessive pursuit of healthy lifestyle and body-image

1. According to the experts by neglecting food one cannot concentrate, always have negatives vibes about his/her own body, is attracted by skinny people, becomes introvert and is surrounded by many diseases instead of saving time and maintaining an ideal weight (Marta Plichta, 2020).

2. Disordered eating habits like Orthorexia nervosa of school-going often take over when students are busy in activities of daily life or sometimes their priorities. By neglecting food, they think that they can save time and can maintain an ideal weight (Dunn, 2019).

· Argument 3: correlations with other disordered eating patterns

1. College students are the most careless about their diet. Lack of healthy food options in campus may lead to anorexia which could be fatal. (SK Lipson, 2017).

2. Patients who received treatments for anorexia and bulimia nervosa shows high prevalent O.N. symptoms which is a less severe E.D. (Segura-Garcia C, Ramacciotti C, Rania M, et al., 2016)

· Conclusion

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