Question

Which professions put one most at risk for an eating disorder? psychologists and psychiatrists doctors and nurses performers and certain athletes dress designers and make-up artists?

Answer 1

Performers and certain athletes are more likely to develop eating disorders. Due to the nature of their profession, they are more pressured to conform to certain body weights or image. For example, artists struggle under to conform to society’s image of thin figures and therefore succumb to eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia.