Manorexia Activity

What is Manorexia? 

Anorexia is a term that refers to males suffering from the eating disorder, anorexia nervosa. Manorexia is not an official medical term, but is often referred to by the media in medical reports.Anorexia nervosa, or simply anorexia, is a psychological eating disorder that causes people to diet beyond control.

In 50 words, summarize the reasons why manorexiain on the rise.

a big reason the numbers are increasing is that men are now being properly diagnosed. A huge obstacle for doctors has been that the symptoms of eating disorders among men are slightly different than for women, which are so well known by now that in can be fairly easy to diagnose women.

Why is it difficult to identify manorexics?

Its difficult to identify manorexics beacause is difficukt to know if a person eats good or bad product and that their bodies get used to eating that kind of food and when they are adults begin with diseases

What does the text say about overweight children and athletes in relation to eating disorders?

Certain risk factors for developing an eating disorder are specific to men. Men who were teasted as children for being overweight and athletes who must maintain a certain weight for enhanced performance are more at risk of developing

A Hunger Artist

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Rationale

I wrote a letter letter about language and cultural identity, or self - identity, I wrote this letter in a special day, on my birthday, in fact was a birthday gift I gave me, explain my situation and feel with my dad. It was written with different tones: angry, serious and clear, and  this letter is addressed to my dad. In my letter I tried to use formal language (1st person) whit phrases like "that's why we want you to understand that as your children have suffered, that is I write, because it is not easy to live when you're not home all week"


I tried as well to use a technical level of vocabulary whit word choices like "to terminate this words" and "one of my problems with you is that your job does not last more than 10 years in a country..." Using these elements I feel I reached my purpose of making readers reflect upon the importance

I chose a letter to do this because I felt that in this way I could I could best express what I learned from the topics we studied in this unit and I can learn and  explain this with a letter. (200 words)