Hayley Pearce-4 annotations

Works Cited
Emery, Robert E. "Anorexia Nervosa (pathology) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia." Encylopedia Brittanica. Encyclopedia - Britannica Online Encyclopedia. Web. 26 Oct. 2010. .
In this encyclopedia source, Robert Emery describes the difference between anorexia and bulimia but focuses on anorexia throughout the rest of the article. He explains what happens after a patient is diagnosed with anorexia and what are the most common ways to cure the disorder and which are shown to be the most effective methods. I probably will only use this source for information and not really for my research background because I am going to mainly focus on the causes of anorexia.

"Anorexia (pathology) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia." Encyclopedia - Britannica Online Encyclopedia. Web. 26 Oct. 2010. .
This encyclopedic source briefly defines anorexia nervosa and describes the consequences of the disorder. Common symptoms are provided and the article states that anorexia may be brought on from pain or shock. Although the information in this source is extremely vague, it coincides with my previous research that there is a “triggering” effect that somehow causes the onset of anorexia nervosa.

Waller, Glenn. "View Record." CSA. Web. 26 Oct. 2010. .
The abstract for this source describes it as the recorded data about sexual or child abuse in bulimic and anorexic patients. It concludes that bulimic patients were more likely to have experienced some sort of abuse in their past than anorectics were. I found this source through the “Psychology” tab on the library website. This information will be helpful with my research because it shows that for most anorexic patients, abuse is not the “triggering” factor for their disorder.

"Decoding the causes of eating disorders." Flair-Flow Reports FFE 578/03/HP65 (2003): 1. FSTA - Food Science and Technology Abstracts. EBSCO. Web. 26 Oct. 2010.
This source talks about the most common causes of eating disorder that have been researched for the past 7 years. It talks about how obesity, anorexia nervosa, bulimia and binge-eating are all eating disorders. I found this source under the “Food Sciences” tab of the library’s website. This source won’t be as helpful to me as I had originally hoped because as I look more closely at it, it discusses obesity as an eating disorder more than it talks about anorexia nervosa.