Most of the individual take out their frustration on food. It is more recurrent in students .They have erratic eating habits. The stress level rises to the extent that it affects hunger drive of an individual. Most students refused to have a balanced diet when exams are at the threshold. Eating and enjoying food is an essential part of being alive. The nutrition derive from food keeps us healthy, alert, and feeling good. The tastes and smells of food are some of the nicest pleasures in life. Sharing food is an important way for friends and family to come together. So, how can food be a problem?

Everybody needs to eat to live – food is a very important part of people’s lives. People like different foods and need different amounts of food. Just as people have different hair colour, they have different bodies, heights, bone structures and builds. Body fat is stored in different places in our bodies, due to our genes. It is most important to have a healthy body weight (and a certain amount of body fat ) to keep our bodies working. Most people are unhappy with their bodies some of the time – thinking they are too fat, too thin, or just the wrong shape. This can be especially true for teenagers whose bodies are changing a lot, often very quickly.

Many people try out diets and usually this is not a problem. However, sometimes, eating patterns can become unhealthy, for example if you eat too much or too little because you are feeling unhappy or stressed. It can be easier to control the way you eat than to cope with painful feelings. Over time, this can become dangerous to your emotional and physical health. There are different kinds of eating problems and disorders – some are more serious than others. All eating difficulties are worrying. It is when young people and their parents are troubled by the young person’s seating habits , losing weight and taking up so much time thinking about it all, that these are what we call eating problems. In most cases these worries can be lived with; they pass with time and with the help and support of parents, friends, teachers and GPs.

There are other young people, however, whose eating problems become much more serious and extreme. Their not eating or over-eating builds up and persists over many months so that their physical health, and in some cases even their lives, can be put at high risk. Their everyday life at home and in school may well be seriously disrupted. These young people are not at all well, either physically or emotionally. It is when eating problems like this reach such a disturbing level that specialists use the term eating disorders – the most severe disorders being called anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Sometimes people use these terms to cover all kinds of eating problems. The shorter terms anorexia and bulimia (or anorexic and bulimic) are more appropriately used for the less extreme though still worrying eating problems – for example a loss of appetite which may primarily have a physical cause.

Eating problems and disorders are more common in girls than boys, but people from all backgrounds and of all ages can suffer too. Eating problems and disorders are not just about food, they are about feelings.

Our society sends out mixed messages about food, messages that are contradictory and very destructive. On the one hand, we are bombarded with images of delicious food and urged to eat, eat, and eat. On the other hand, and this is especially true for women, images of thin-very thin- young models are presented to us as a physical ideal.

These mixed messages combined with other factors can lead some to develop problems with their eating habits. We call these problems “Eating Disorders,” since they affect normal, healthy functioning.

Eating disorders develop over time. In our culture, dieting has become the norm. It is estimated that from 60 to 80% of American women are on diets. Studies show that manyeating disorders begin when dieting gets out of control. Eating disorders are about 10 times as common in women as in men.

Many college-age women restrict food intake, resulting in severe weight loss. Ten to 20% of college-age women binge on large amounts of food and eliminate the food by vomiting, using laxatives, severe fasting, and/or over-exercising. These practices lead to secrecy and isolation, guilt and shame, and other negative feelings about oneself.