Producing English consonant sounds is not so problematic for many Spanish learners, but difficult enough! 1  They may have problems in the following aspects: 2  failure to pronounce the end consonant accurately or strongly enough ; e.g. cart for the English word card or brish for bridge or thing for think.
Few studies have considered the developmental trajectory of eating disorder symptoms in males, but available data suggest that boys may show reductions in eating pathology from early adolescence to mid adolescence, and then experience an increase in symptoms in late adolescence or early adulthood [3, 5, 7, 8].
Men and boys fall prey to anorexia nervosa and other eating disorders, too: Recent estimates find that as many as one in eight people with an eating disorder is male. Treatment for the disorder has stagnated, partly because patients with the condition are difficult to treat and partly because insurance won't pay for long-term treatment (see Pressing for better insurance coverage for eating disorders).