OVERWEIGHT: Her emotional well-being is also being affected due to her daily food intake
Case Study On Marlene.
Marlene has very low self-esteem. This is initially leading to factors that are causing her physical, intellectual, emotional and social needs to suffer.
Her physical and social well being is being affected due to her daily food intake.
Marlene eats a lot of chocolate and crisps and had become very overweight. Marlene may have turned to the chocolate and crisps as comfort eating. This is a condition that can occur when a person feelings very low and has little self-esteem. She may overeat because she feels alone, depressed or run down. Marlene may not necessary feel hungry however may comfort eat to make her self feel better. This is causing serious damage on Marlene’s health and well-being, as Marlene is very overweight. This will cause a number of physical and emotional problems. A few physical problems that can arise are cardio-vascular problems, which relates to the heart and the lungs, muscle and joint problems, coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, and most cases will lead to heart attack and death. The amount of pressure put on the heart can cause the heart to stop working; therefore the number of heart attacks occurring on overweight people is increasing rapidly.
