In many circles, American culture today revolves around thinness and beauty. Simple evidence of this fact is that everyone knows at least one person who is on a diet. But how can we tell what is normal dieting behavior versus a problem which can become life-threatening? And how can we identify these life-threatening behaviors before it is too late? Certainly we can identify anorexia nervosa after a sufferer has lost too much weight. But where is the line that separates dieting from a serious illness? To answer these questions, scholars of psychological studies have determined typical behaviors of people suffering from an eating disorder. (Unfortunately the findings are complicated by the difficulty in diagnosing a person when he or she is in the beginning stages of the disease.) However,

Question

these early warning signs should help you to determine if you or a loved one is on a destructive eating disorder path: exhibiting low selfesteem, feeling of a lack of control over life, having a distorted body image, obsessing on overachievement, surceasing the menstrual cycle (females), thinking constantly of food, isolating self from friends and family (including dining alone), feeling fatigue, growing more facial and body hair and losing scalp hair.

The pattern of organization used by the author is

a. location.
b. sequence.
c. simple listing.

Answer 1

c. simple listing.