Script:

Gaby, Thauany, Cassiano, Amanda, Marielen e Pedro.

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Cas: Good evening, starts now another edition of the journal collective voice of the
youth.
T: Good Evening, today we will be talking about a theme that affects many young
people and still little is disclosed by the media. Bulimia and Anorexia
Cas: Being thin is Increasingly imposed by the media as a standard of beauty, in that
sense, the image makers like cinema, television, marketing and magazines, have
contributed for people to dedicate themselves to having an excessively thin body.
T: A social factor that has increasingly affected the psychological of the youth, and has
become a public health problem that mostly acts on girls aged between 9 and 13 years.

Cas: Bulimia specifically is a disorder characterized by excessive food intake and a

subsequent sense of guilt, which causes the person to induce vomiting or make use of
laxatives.
T: Studies show that these people have a decrease in serotonin, a chemical messenger
neurotransmitter, whose function is to inform the brain of satiety after meals, which
explains the absence of satiety and subsequent excessive food intake.
CAS:
Bulimia brings consequences such as ulcers and dilation of the stomach, caused by the
passage of vomiting, in addition to hormonal changes.
T: Our reporter Amanda is now with a young man who suffers from this disorder,
Amanda ...
A: Good evening, I'm here with Pedro and he agreed in talking a little about the
disease, how it was to accept it and now how is the treatment going.
P: Well, the beginning was very complicated, I was in denial, because when I read
about it I saw that it was most common among the middle class of underdeveloped
countries, which is not my case, but after an appointment with the psychologist and
some tests I got it, and now I go through psychological treatments that help me
accepting myself and that control my hormones, I feel I am getting better.
A: Thank you, Pedro< for your testimony, which can be an inspiration for many young
people today, perhaps they will go through what you have gone. Cassiano, Thauany ...
T: Thank you Amanda. Now we are going to talk about Anorexia, which is also a
psychological disorder and is related to the stereotypes of thinness, the anorexic
considers himself fat and so he spends enormous time without eating, to accelerate
weight loss he ingests laxatives or diuretics.
Cas: Anorexia has a mortality rate of 15 to 20% greater than any psychological disorder,
usually killing by heart attack due to lack of potassium or sodium, which help to control
the normal heart rhythm.
T: Young people between 15 and 25 years are the most affected by anorexia, and 95%
of cases of anorexia nervosa occur in women. Experts believe that the media influence
is one of the causes of eating disorders, because of the stereotype imposed in which
thinness is a major factor for a person's social and economic success, from television
networks to movies and magazines. Such influence is quite negative in children and
adolescents, in whom the personality is still in formation.
Cas: Now let's talk to our reporter Gabriela who is at that moment with a young
woman who has been through this problem and will tell us more about the decease.
G: Good evening, I'm here with this young woman who prefers not to be identified and
who has gone through the treatment of anorexia. Could you tell us more about this
disorder?
M: Well I still have difficulty with acceptance and I have been through psychological
treatments to face it in a different way, but in the situation I was in I could die, because
it's terrible to feel fat the whole time and think " I am a freak" because society makes
us feel this way, the girl on my side is always beautiful, but I have to improve, I have to
lose weight ...
G: Thank you for your testimony. Redaction
T: Well in today's edition we have seen a bit about bulimia and Anorexia and how these
disorders affects biologically, chemically, physically and psychologically the person who
suffers from it. Recalling that the term "bulimia" goes back to ancient Greece, the word
would derive from the Greek term "bous", ox and "limos", famine. This term was used
as a synonym for voracious hunger. During the medieval and modern period has served
to designate episodes of "insatiable voracity", "morbid", as a "canine appetite", with or
without the presence of vomiting and accompanied by other symptoms.
CAs: In 1979, the psychiatrist and teacher, Gerald Russell was the first to make a
complete description of the clinical picture and establish the first criteria for this
disorder, and introduce the term "Bulimia Nervosa". A year later the American
Psychiatric Association included this disorder in the Diagnostic Manual.
T: So, is concluded another edition of the journal collective voice of the youth. Good
Night
Cas: Good Night.

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