Many studies affirm that the impact of obesity on our society with a report by the Trust for America’s Health suggesting that over half of American adults are either overweight or obese (Levi, Juliano & Segal, 2006). Obesity is a consequence of the energy intake in terms of calories exceeding the energy expenditure (WHO, 2000). However, there are many complex and diverse factors that create this imbalance in the intake and expenditure of calories and the interaction between a number of these factors may be the cause of obesity. It is therefore wrong to assume that obesity is simply as a result of overindulgence in certain kinds of foods or lack of physical activity. Dietary factors and physical activity patterns have been observed to strongly influence the balance between energy intake and expenditure. Many research findings indicate that dietary factors such as levels of fat and energy food intakes are positively associated with excessive body weight which translates to obesity (WHO, 2000). The body compensates for the overconsumption of energy from high-fat foods but the fat induced appetite control signals tend to get weak thus leading to more consumption. In addition to the dietary factors, there is a relationship between the Body Mass Index and physical activities that one involves himself in. As such, there is a strong indication that obese and overweight people are less active than their lean counterparts. Partly as a result of this findings, there has been an assumption that being obese explicitly implies inactivity. This is a myth that should be dispelled off since results in studies suggest that low and decreasing levels of activity are primarily responsible as obesity is absent among elite athletes while those athletes who give up sports often end up experiencing fatness (WHO, 2000) Anorexia Anorexia Nervosa is a disorder which makes eating very distressing for a person (Stark, 2000). Anorexia is commonly characterized by emaciation and a distortion of body image by the sufferer. People with this condition are obsessively anxious to maintain or reduce their body weight. To achieve this, the sufferers of this condition engage in a rigid control of their daily calorie intake. While people with anorexia nervosa normally have perfectly normal appetites and feel hungry as the rest of the people do, their fear of weight gain deters them from maintaining a normal diet. One of the myths that surrounds anorexia is that the only cause of this disorder is the wish to lose weight; some people even refer to the condition as the ‘slimmer’s disease’. While this assumption may hold true for some cases Stark assets that this eating disorder is caused by a number of other factors. Another myth surrounding anorexia is that the condition is exclusively suffered by women. While it is true that a majority of the sufferers of this condition are indeed women, Stark (2000) demonstrates that these group make up 90-95% with the remaining percentage being filled up by men. In additional to this, there is evidence that suggest that in the 7-14year age bracket, boys make up 25% of anorexia cases. This might be attributed to the fact that appearance and body image generate great especially among teenagers