In today's news, there are many cases of deaths of young and old women and men. The majority of these deaths are due to illness, car accidents or natural disasters, but there is also a high percentage of deaths caused by another factor. In fact, “20% of people with anorexia [and bulimia] die from it” (ask how to quote it). Once bulimia and anorexia become part of a person's life, it's as if they are trapped in their own body trying to escape. Eating disorders manipulate a person's thought process into believing that their physical appearance is not accepted in our society. They constantly pressure and remind them that food is what is going to make them gain weight, so the only solution is to either starve themselves until they can gain a smaller size, or eat a large amount of food and vomit everything from their body. system later. Eating disorders have been around for centuries and when they started becoming popular around 1990, many had different perspectives on them. He. Very few people believed that it was an illness and that they should help those living with it. Others saw it as a disease for the insane and showed no attempt to accept them as humans. The change in the way people judge others based on their appearance and the way we judge ourselves changes the entire cause of Diana Spenser, the People's Princess. She constantly volunteered and visited victims of eating disorders to make them feel like someone cared rather than seeing them as monsters. His 1993 speech actually helped humans understand the true meaning of an eating disorder. 1961, Diana Spenser lived in a palace with her father Edward John Spencer (Viscount Althorn), her mother Frances Ruth Burk...... middle of paper ......was dedicated to doctors, people with disorders and people who considered eating disorders to be an incurable disease. Diana had to convince the four hundred doctors who surrounded her during the speech to succeed in getting them to invent a treatment. To achieve this, she uncovers in their minds a vivid picture of what people with eating disorders experience every day that passes without help. Works CitedMattern, Joanne. Princess Diana. New York: DK Pub., 2006. Print. Windsor, Diana. “Eating Disorders”. Eating disorders. Settelen Communications, January 1, 1993. Web. May 7, 2014. Diana, Princess of Wales. "Bio. A&E Television Networks, 2014. Web. May 7, 2014.Di's Private Battle." People. Np, August 3, 1992. Web. May 20 2014.