For reasons that are unclear, many teenage girls feel the need to be as thin as they can be. ... Throughout puberty, girls feel their body is not "ideal." ... Teenage girls need to find the strength to accept themselves as they are. Whether girls are over weight, or forty pounds under weight, every person is beautiful in their own way. ... Too many teenage girls are dying to be thin. ...
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...
Low self-esteem issue is most common in teenage girls and in women however younger and older men could also feel this way as well. ... Girls and women are trying to lose weight until they literally cannot loose anymore weigh and sometimes dying from anorexia may be the major result of ones eating disorder. ... According to a research done by California State University, "The advertisements sell images of thin, beautiful light skinned women, along with the image is a message from the advertising company telling girls to lose weight, or increase their breast size" (Reed). ... Sexual ad...
