Prevalence of Feeding Disorders

In the case of males, puberty acts on the

opposite: the closer to the cultural ideal of

masculinity, both in terms of biology and

social. Men with eating disorders

often express concern, perceptions of their

and body aesthetic ideals in terms considered

and female. Goldman cites the case of

Andrew, age 20, "wanted to control the

food, could not control myself, I grabbed

binge eating and then, I have feelings of guilt

and vomiting, "" obese, Cork told me, I carried

because it was short and fat "," I have diagnostic

of bulimia, I do a lot of exercise, I

binge, I sleep forgotten, I'm bulimic and

used to be anorexic ".11 Among the men begin

to spread ideals of beauty and thinness

through journals, promotion

products such as cosmetics and men's fashion

for thin people and these factors can

influence an increased rate of disorders

eating among males, but the

weight of this element and its relation to other perceived

risk is not as widespread social

or so internalized in men as it is

in the case of women.

For both men and women the

Adolescence is an important time

in the process of defining