RELIGION BELIEFS AND EATING DISORDERS

Researchers are looking at a variety of risk factors, since there is not one single component that leads to eating disorders. In addition, they are investigating how the many risk factors are connected to one another. In addition, researchers have started looking at preventative and interventional measures that may be used to stop an eating problem from progressing to a severe level. On the other hand, owing to the intricacy of EDs, no treatment strategy has been shown to be effective. A discussion of the factors that may have a role in the development of eating disorders. Even while a substantial number of the elements that have a role in the symptomology of eating disorders are now well understood, there are additional aspects that need more research. An unhealthy preoccupation with one's body image, a feeling of helplessness, a history of sexual abuse, an obsession with attaining perfection, and worries about one's gender are all risk factors that have been linked to the development of eating disorders (Bruch, 1973; Franko & Striegel Moore, 2007; Varady 2002). Other factors, such as religion, religious orientation, age, and genetic predisposition, have just lately been investigated; nevertheless, a connection between the development of ED 3 and any of these factors has not been established. It is crucial, when it comes to the therapy as well as the prevention of EDs, to discover the relationships between the many distinct components of ED symptomology that are present (adherence to a religious tradition)