New Resource – Teens At Risk: Wasting Away

Teens At Risk: Wasting Away DVD

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Teens At Risk … Powerful Insights Into Powerful Issues

The TEENS AT RISK series deals with powerful and relevant issues facing teenagers today.  This series reveals first hand how young people deal with and overcome the very real challenges encountered as part of their growing up.  Relevant to all teens and with real life messages about real life issues, these highly charged personal interviews and stories reveal, in their own words, how significant and seemingly overwhelming problems can be to overcome. 

TEENS AT RISK is crafted by experts to help solve and give advise about pressing issues facing youth in school, family and adolescent society and gives viewers the messages of hope and support that are needed in this complex and often overwhelming world.

In this program, you will see the struggles teens face with Bulimia Nervosa and Anorexia Nervosa from individuals that have suffered from this affliction and survived.  For reasons unclear, some people, mainly young women, develop potentially life-threatening eating disorders  called bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa. 

People with bulimia, known as bulimics, indulge in binging (episodes of eating large amounts of food) and purging (getting rid of the food by vomiting or using laxatives).  People with anorexia, whom doctors call anoretics, severly limit their food intake.  About half of them also have bulimia symptoms. 

Bulimia is also a very deadly physical illness as intentionally purging causes many debilitating effects  including severe teeth erosion, tears of the esophagus, life threatening potassium imbalances and more.  More than 20% die from complications relating to their eating disorders. 

Anorexics similarly are affected by their illnesses in many ways ranging from fatigue and lack of energy, amenorrhea( loss of menstruation), loss of bone mass and even cardiac arrest and death.