| Cafeterias, all-you-can-eat buffets and late night | | | | Family and close friends' attitudes about |
| pizza deliveries are just a few of the temptations | | | | appearance and diet |
| facing college freshman as they adjust to their | | | | Stressful or life changing events |
| new found freedom and life on their own for the | | | | Emotional disorders such as anxiety and |
| first time. Weight gain and poor eating habits are | | | | depression |
| the likely outcomes for many, but a growing | | | | While many college students have an actual |
| number of college students, primarily females, | | | | diagnosed eating disorder, even more students |
| suffer from eating disorders like anorexia | | | | develop unhealthy eating habits and an unhealthy |
| nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating. | | | | relationship with food. Often, it's the work |
| College life is stressful, and some students have | | | | hard-play hard culture of college life that can |
| more difficulty than others trying to cope with a | | | | promote unhealthy eating. Signs you may have an |
| new routine and environment. When life becomes | | | | eating disorder: |
| overwhelming, some focus on food, weight and | | | | Making yourself throw up after meals |
| calories as a way to exert control over a life that | | | | Moving food around on your plate but not eating |
| seems out of control. In some cases, the stress | | | | anything |
| can lead to overeating or making poor food | | | | Eating very small amounts of only certain foods |
| choices. In more extreme cases, a person will | | | | Taking diet pills |
| purposely withhold food or binge and then purge. | | | | Not eating or eating very little |
| While there is no single known cause, eating | | | | Counting calories, weighing food and obsessing |
| disorders can develop based on any of these | | | | about everything you eat |
| factors: | | | | Eating disorders can turn into serious medical |
| Societal pressure to be thin | | | | problems. |