Our food eating is determined by a number of factors such as food availability, strength of appetite, the practices of our friends, acquaintances and wider culture, family or voluntary control.

Owing to influences such as fashion trends, unhealthy weight loss diets, and societal pressure many people, especially girls or women limit food ingestion to a bmi which is less than that which is required for healthy living.

Diet disorders are problems which have a serious impact on ones food consumption behaviour. It may involve a damaging extreme decreese in one’s level of food consumption or otherwise, excessive overeating followed by the feelings of remorse and anxiousness about body image and weight.

Eating Disorders : An Introduction