Growth & Development: Eating Disorders

by Ask The Health Educator

Price: 300 points or $3 USD

Subjects: healthPhysEd,health,physicalEducation,sel,selfManagement,responsibleDecisionMaking,selfAwareness

Grades: 5,6,7,8,9

Description: Did you know that the onset of eating disorders is the early teen years? With the diet culture and the pressures associated with growing up, many young people are at risk of developing eating disorders. Through this unique resource, learners will have the opportunity to examine risk factors associated with common eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia, & binge eating), and explore how body image and mass media can also play a role. Weight-teasing and bullying is also discussed. Great supplement to health, nutrition and life-skills units.