Thousands of teenage girls are starving themselves to attain what the fashion industry considers to be the ideal figure. ... These, however, are still small in number and have yet to carry the impact necessary to change the perception of the ideal image. 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. ... Teachers and school counselors should also be made aware of the signs to look for. ...

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Balanchine is created with creating the concept of the ideal ballet body. ... This ultra-thin requirement for dancers is what you learn at a very young age, through comments made by dance teachers, partners, parents, and the dance media. ... Dance teachers will also tell students to go on a diet, or that they will not get a certain part if they don't lose weight. ... All of this of course is because of her teachers and her peers around her. ... That's what a lot of dance teachers put into your head and that it the number one reason dancers develop eating disorders. ...

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It was found that by six years of age, a large number of girls already desired a thinner ideal figure (p.135.) ... As the beauty ideal continues to become significant in our society, body image with American women continues to tumble. ... As with women of all ages, many college-age women are believed to hold improbable ideals of body shape and size, ideals that can be both physically and emotionally unhealthy. ... Negativity Written Over Artificial Images When I was seven years old, enrolled in the second grade, my teacher always had a stack of beauty-focused magazines for her personal reason...

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As a result of this barrage of images, some people feel that they must change to fit these ideals. ... (Hittner 1997) It is also important for children, at an early age, to develop sources of self-esteem that are based on qualities other than physical appearance and for parents and teachers to promote acceptance of the natural diversity of body types. ... 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, evo...

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But to blame just our society is not enough, because biology is another important aspect that can be brought into context with our ideal of beauty: The reasons why it is so important for women to be beautiful and men to be strong and handsome are deeply ingrained in the human psyche and are the product of hundreds of thousands of years of evolution. ... And our society can prove this argument: 1) Their partners tend to be more attractive; 2) They are thought to be more intelligent and sociable by their teachers who tend to give them better grades in school; Of course we can't attribu...

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Despite what any teachers or peers would maybe think, it was hardly a "vacation from school", we woke up at 6:30, got weighed, then dressed, and walked over to the eating disorders unit at 7:00. ... I have to admit, since my home life is less then ideal, partial was difficult to adjust to. ...

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She was befriended by a teacher, a former bulimic of ten years, who recognized the signs. This teacher helped Heather begin the process of altering what she now considered as a "normal- lifestyle and continued to support her when she relapsed. ...

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The body type known as ideal is possessed by only 5% of American females ("E.D.... Her teacher even made a reference to her saying that she used to be as big as Laurie. ... People think that in order to be the ideal model image everyone wants, people resort to starving, vomiting, abuse of laxatives and diuretics, dieting, endured hours of exercise, and even plastic surgery (Thompson). ...

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It seemed to me that the older I get, the more obsessed people seemed about their bodies. Whether it was the diet soda boom of the 80's, or the fact everyone has always been unhappy with his or her natural bodies; it just took me a while to comprehend. It always seemed like there were diets here, di...

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