Ashley y Emily es una cuento con Una chica  y su amiga imaginativa.

There are pieces and methods to treating an Eating Disorder:

• There is an initial assessment to see which method of treatment will work the best.
• There is outpatient treatment in which the patient is treated at home.
• Different types of Psychotherapy to get the patient's mindset back into normal eating habits.
• Nutritional Counseling to help the patient eat well so that they feel better about themselves.
• Psychopharmacology are pills that help the depression that having an eating disorder causes.
• Medical Treatment which is to help patients with long term problems that have become an issue.
• Day Hospital Care is for patients who need a more structured method of treatment than outpatient treatment.
• Inpatient treatment is for patients who need an even more structured method of treatment, many of these places are affiliated with a day hospital care program so that the patients can step up and down in the process.
• Residential Care is for patients who have been hospitalized more than once but cannot reach the psychological or physical stability to do this on their own.

There are many different treatment centers around the world for Eating Disorders, the top 10 states with centers are:

California

Texas

Pennsylvania

North Carolina

New York

Florida

Arizona

Missouri

Illinois

New Jersey

Links to treatment centers!

Although women and girls are more affected by eating disorders, men have them too.

One in four preadolescent cases of anorexia occurs in boys.

 
More often in men though they have Muscle Dysmorphia, which is a disorder that is categorized by the extreme concern to gain muscle mass.

Some boys with the disorder want to lose weight while others want to gain weight or gain more muscle.

Boys who think that they are too small have a greater risk for using steroids or other drugs to increase muscle mass.

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, Boys who have eating disorders exhibit the same symptoms emotionally, physically, and behaviorally as girls. Although they are less likely to be diagnosed or treated for the stereotypically female disorder.

According to Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. "But, in contrast to women, where the images are one size fits all (thin is always in), men have a variety of images to emulate."

Reasons Men have Eating Disorders:

• To prevent weight gain
• Excel in sports.
• Avoid health complications.
• Improve appearance after childhood teasing.
• For their jobs.

Eating disorders are more prevalent in homosexual and bisexual men.

Reasons men do not seek treatment:

• Embarrassment because the disorder is known as a women's disease
• Services because male treatment centers have just recently received attention.

There are many different forms of Eating Disorders, the two main ones are:

• Anorexia Nervosa:

  Anorexia is a relentless pursuit of thinness and unwillingness to maintain a normal or healthy weight.

  People who have Anorexia believe they are always overweight, even though they are extremely underweight.

• Bulimia Nervosa

  Bulimia is an eating disorder where people eat a lot of food and then purge.

  People who have Bulimia can be an average weight.

  Bulimia is often done secretly

They are often shortened to Anorexia and Bulimia when being mentioned.

Anorexia:

The most common signs of Anorexia are:

• Obsessions with what that person eats
• Repeated Weigh ins
• Eating very small portions of food.
• Excessive exercise
• Forceful vomiting

According to studies Anorexics are ten times more likely to die of their illness compared to theose without the disorder.

Symptoms developed over long periods of time:

• thinning of the bones
• brittle hair and nails
• dry and yellowish skin
• growth of fine hair over body
• mild anemia, and muscle weakness and loss
• severe constipation
• low blood pressure, slowed breathing and pulse
• drop in internal body temperature, causing a person to feel cold all the time
• lethargy

 
Bulimia:

Common signs of Bulimia are eating excessively large amounts of food at a time, also called binge eating and purging which is self induced vomiting after eating.

Other Symptoms that are not always seen:

• chronically inflamed and sore throat
• swollen glands in the neck and below the jaw
• worn tooth enamel and increasingly sensitive and decaying teeth
• gastroesophageal reflux disorder
• intestinal distress and irritation from laxative abuse
• kidney problems from diuretic abuse
• severe dehydration from purging of fluids

 
Both of these Disorders can be Psychological and Physical.

Psychological Factors can be low self esteem, feelings of inadequency, Depression, Anxiety, Anger, and lonliness.

Interpersonal Factors can be having a troubled family, difficulty expressing feelings, being bullied based on weight and size, and having a history of abuse.

 Social Factors can be cultural pressures that value thinness and the perfect body (magazines, television shows...etc.), Narrow definitions of beauty that can only emphasize men and women of certain shapes and sizes, and cultural norms that value people based on image instead of inner qualities and strengths.

Statistics of Eating Disorders:

8 million
people in the United States
suffer from eating disorders

3% of all
young women and girls suffer from anorexia

3-4% of all
young women and girls suffer from bulimia

1% of men
suffer from eating disorders

15% of
young women have some kind of disordered eating
patterns

Eating disorders have the highest
mortality rate of any psychological disease

There are more than 8500 different web
sites that deal with anorexia

 

Treatment of Eating Disorders:

EatingDisorder.com

Academy for eating Disorders

On Election day I was asked to go to my polling place and ask a Poll Worker a few questions. The Poll Worker I interviewed was Michael McBride.

Question 1 - Did you work the election last year?

Answer - Yes I did. I work here every year.

Question 2 - How is this year different than 2009?

Answer - There is a smaller turnout this year.

Question 3 - What is the Best part of being a Poll Worker?

Answer - I get to see neighbors I don't always get to see.

Question 4 - What is the most difficult part of being a Poll Worker?

Answer - Dealing with the weather is always the worst.

During my trip there I was not able to go inside the building where they were voting because I was underage, so I took a picture of the outside of the building. While I was there only one other person went to go vote, the polling place was almost deserted. 

Devon Thomas

Grade 11

Science Leadership Academy

"Queso"

About the Project:

For this project we were told to write a song about our summer. My group's song is about what we ate this summer. Our final project is very original and I am very proud of it. If I could do this all over again I think that we would have added more preterite and imperfect tenses into our song. I really enjoyed this project it was really fun to think of things that went with this even though it was very, very original.

 Dropbox Link:

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/639302/La%20Canci%C3%B3n%20de%20Queso.mp3

In my life I use many forms of one language. I speak a form of English with my friends although it is only slightly different than “Standard English” it is very different at the same time. We use made up words and speak with our eyes more than our voices. At work and at school with teachers I use the language that is expected of me called “Standard English.” Sometimes I don’t realize that I use these different forms of the English language, I don’t try to “code switch” but I do anyway.

So the Phillies just won the world series, AFTER 28 YEARS!!!!  I think this means a lot because there was a "curse" in Philly. The curse was that no building was supposed to be taller than William Penn or hte sports teams will never win a world championship. After the Comcast building was built it was taller than the William Penn. This current year they put a toy Penn on top of their roof AND WE WON!!! (: This means a lot for the city and we are so excited for the Parade tomorrow!!!

I am currently reading the book Star Girl and I am really into it. I am at chapter 6 and I really reccomend this book to read. It is about a girl who comes to a new school and how she is very different from everyone else. In the beginning everyone thinks she is a narc or a school employee, except for one person. The narrarator is the person who believes Stargirl is a real person. If you have ever felt different in a school or you were the outcast of any sort this is a book for you to read. If you were the person bullying people or making them feel different in school this is a book for you to read. I think that anyone can relate this book because it is so general in its topic so far, but I don't know maybe it gets a little more specific

In english "The Classroom of Love" we are currently reading Hamlet. This is probably the most exciting book we have read in this class so far. This book is intreguing and it is exciting as well. This book helps me stay focused in class and it helps me become more interactive in class discussions because I am remembering what I read because I like the book. We have done quizzes in class where we have to read a quote or pick one and translate it into modern english then we have to say how it relates to the story and why it is in the book. We also do many activities such as SUHUPU(stand up, hand up, pair up) and round robin. We also read the book at home then discuss it in class then watch that scene on the screen. We watch two different versions of Hamlet, the Mel Gibson version which is based a little later in time and the older version which is based in the time the story of Hamlet would have happened.

In class we also Journal almost every day and we write about how we feel or what we are going to do today or whatever, we could put them in the cabinet so Mr. Chase and Ms. Weinraub can read them or we could just put it back in our bag and take it home.

I love "The Classroom of Love" because it is like a home away from home and I know I could come in here and just talk to Mr. Chase or Ms. Weinraub about what I am feeling that day and they help me out and they give me some advice.

This is my Q3 benchmark for Bio-Chem. This project was about egg cell permeability and why we think it is happening.

This is my Quarter 3 ninth grade bio chemistry benchmark. It is about how to find the permeability of a typical chicken egg.

I completed this project with a partener and we both chose 3 liquids and over the course of about a week we went through all three liquids.

If I were to do this project over I would choose other liquids to see how each would affect the egg differently. and choose more than one egg so that I could do them all at once and see the difference over a longer period of time.

Here is my Q3 benchmark.