As a result, some girls begin to diet excessively in order to reach that ideal, super-model body image. ... Anorexia affects two out of every one hundred teenage girls; bulimia affects three out of every one hundred teenage girls. Both anorexia and bulimia are essentially slimming eating disorders, where the individual aims at loosing weight. ... Bulimia can be more difficult to detect than anorexia because many girls and women with this disorder maintain a normal body weight. ... According to the article "Study Finds Alters Fiji Girls" View of Body" it says that "Fifteen percent in the 1998 s...

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"To all girls who think you're ugly because you're not a size zero, you're the beautiful one. ... " Not only is the fashion industry implying that to be an ideal woman a woman needs to be thin, but they're also implying that to be an ideal woman you have to be white. ... Women and adolescents think that anorexia or bulimia is the easy way to lose weight. ... One Tumblr website called pro-ana-crystalized.tumblr.com is run by a teenage girl who battles with an eating disorder. ... By definition they are people that want to develop an eating disorder as a technique t...

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Anorexia nervosa occurs in ½% to 1% of girl's aged 13 to 17, peaking at age 15. ... One study of high school students reported that 2.7% of girls and 1.4% of boys engaged in bulimic behavior. ... Thousands of teenage girls are starving themselves to attain what the fashion industry considers to be the ideal figure. ... Teenagers need to realize that society's ideal body image is not achievable. ... We buy into the idea that we can attain the "ideal- body image. ...

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Kids as early as third grade are concerned about their weight. ... Surrounded by thin models and TV stars, teenage girls are taught to achieve an impossible goal. As a result, many teenage girls intensely dislike their bodies and can tell you down to the minutest detail what is wrong with it. ... To think of a little girl or boy hurting themselves, consciously at that young of an age is very hard to understand. ... Every magazine has the same body image for boys, girls, men and women. ...

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People who suffer from this disorder have an intense fear of weight gain or being "fat", even though they are of normal or underweight. ... According to a recent statistic, more than half of teenaged girls are, or think they should be, on diets. ... Without a doubt, Barbie is the most popular girls doll, and at an early age it sets a bad example. ... Weight, avg. women 145 lbs., Barbie 101lbs.. ... Now how can we expect for our young children to grow up with high self-esteem and confidence, when the ideal goal for what a women, and man, "should" look like, is beyond reach. ...

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