In their efforts to sell products, food advertisers routinely use strategies such as normalizing body dissatisfaction and weight preoccupation among women, set up unfavorable comparisons between women=s own bodies and the thin ideal, evoking guilt and shame about women=s appetites and body size, and inciting fear and anxiety about the potential consequences of unrestrained eating. ... (www.edauk.com April 2003) Anorexia can be defined as a weight loss disorder in which people refuse to maintain a minimally normal weight, have an intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, and misint...

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