Discuss the causes of eating disorders and the importance of a healthy diet. Now there's a good topic for any one learning German.
What immediately comes to mind is
http://www.was-wir-essen.de/ which has a section on
Gesund Essen. Following through to the
Empfehlungen you'll find plenty of recommendations and links to other information sources.
What comes to mind with eating disorders -
Essstörungen - are anorexia -
die Magersucht - and bulimia -
die Ess-Brech-Sucht. The latter illustrates some confusion about how to write words in German. It used to be
Eß-Brech-Sucht but the
ß has been replaced by
ss and it is sometimes written as a single word without hyphens i.e.
Essbrechsucht, or else as
Ess Brechsucht. The easiest place to go for background reading is Wikipedia
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essstörung and that will also give you information about that wonderfully German sounding expression
Binge Eating (note the capital letters). A further sources of information is
Onmeda where you can look up all manner of things to do with health and illness.
Bulimie and
Magersucht are both to be found via the
Krankheiten A-Z page.
Germany seems to have clubs and associations for everything and eating disorders is no exception. Take a look at BFE
Bundes Fachverband Essstörungen e.V. They have a useful quick check page which, I think, will help with the discussion over the causes of eating disorders, so take a look at
Test: Bin ich essgestört? and there are also
Links für Betroffene und Angehörige. The following quote is from the BFE site
Essstörungen gehören in der westlichen Gesellschaft zu den häufigsten psychosomatischen Erkrankungen – mit mehr oder weniger deutlichem Suchtcharakter. Essstörungen äußern sich durch ein gestörtes Verhältnis zum Essen und zum eigenen Körper.
The numbers of people affected are much higher than I had expected. The figures for Germany are: anorexia 100,000 people (90% young women) - bulimia 600,000 - binge eating about 2% óf the population.
Warum sind Kinder aus sozial benachteiligten Familien fast doppelt so häufig betroffen wie Kinder aus der oberen sozialen Schichten?
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