Eating disorders

Introduction

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Eating disorders are serious conditions related to persistent eating behaviors that negatively impact health, emotions and the ability to function in important areas of life. The most common eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder.

The exact cause of eating disorders is unknown. However, certain factors might put teens at risk of developing eating disorders, including:

Societal pressure. Popular culture tends to place a premium on being thin. Even with a normal body weight, teens can easily develop the perception that they're fat. This can trigger an obsession with losing weight and dieting.
Favorite activities. Participation in activities that value leanness — such as modeling and elite athletics — can increase the risk of teen eating disorders.
Personal factors. Genetics or biological factors might make some teens more likely to develop eating disorders. Personality traits such as perfectionism, anxiety or rigidity also might play a role.

Task

Read about eating disorders: types, signs, causes, effects...

The school has proposed a competition to design a poster. In groups of 6 you need to do a campaing to prevent eating disorders such as anorexy or obesity. Choose one and make your own poster. You can help to avoid these diseases in your school!

Process

Those links are very useful to know more about eating disorders:

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/eating-disorders-new-trifo…

http://kidshealth.org/en/teens/eat-disorder.html?WT.ac=t-ra

To make your poster:

Here are some questions that can help you:

Which message do you like to transmit?

Which image and slogan you could use to give strenght to the message?

Some examples of campaings:

http://www.oddee.com/item_97738.aspx

Use this website to create the poster:

http://www.postermywall.com/index.php/g/campaign-posters

Evaluation

Category	4	3	2	1	Total
Poster quality: creativity	Very original product and variety of novel details	Original product and some novel details	Use ideas of examples without using original ideas	Shows a no original product and without novel details
Poster quality: ubication/components distribution	Images, slogan and informative text are presented with informative coherence and they appear in proper place to their correct interpretation	Images, slogan and informative text are presented with informative coherence but they don´t appear in a proper place	Some of their components are not presented with coherence and they do not appear in a proper place to their correct interpretation	Images, slogan and informative text are not presented with informative coherence and they do not appear in proper place to their correct interpretation
Information quality	Message transmition is efficient and direct and provokes curiosity motivating to look for more information	Message transmition is effective and direct but it do not provoke curiosity	Message transmition is confusing and imprecise	The message is not understable
Image quality	The product characteristics are identified throught an attractive and convincing image	The product characteristics are identified throught an attractive but not convincing image	The product characteristics are identified however the image is neither attractive or convincing	The product characteristics can not being identified.

Use this rubric to evaluate your own campaign poster.

Conclusion

All young people should be aware of the risks of this dangerous illness on the body. Forget the stereotypes and be yourself. Help to your friends, your partners to prevent these disorders and improve their self-esteem.

I hope you enjoyed with this lesson!