Anorexia

            What are the effects of the obsession with thinness on young females?.
             Many people in America are gaining weight and the problems that come along with it. Stroke, heart disease, and diabetes are some bad effects of being overweight. Also, at the same time many people, especially young females, are losing weight maybe to avoid health problems associated with gaining weight. Yet sometimes people may not understand that too much weight loss has just as bad effects as being overweigh does. The causes for dieting can be for more than just health reasons. The media plays an important role in weight loss as well.
             Young females especially diet so that they might look like the super-thin models on television. This is because the media has portrayed thin women as being the idea of beauty, and what young woman does not want to be beautiful? The truth is, however, that only 1 percent of women can actually be that kind of super-thin (Kilborne). The rest of us just wish we were that thin or diet obsessively to be or stay thin. The effects of the obsession with thinness are physically visible whereas the causes may not be so clear.
             Obsession with is a mental problem that is caused by various reasons. One reason many young females lose weight is because if they don't fit the idea of beauty then they might seem different or lazy and incapable of self-control ("Eating Disorders"2). It seems to be the different children who get picked on .
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             and made fun of, especially the fat kids. Those reasons can make a person feel inadequate and they can turn to dieting so that they can fit in and not be different.
             For the many young females who diet heavily, the results can cause more health problems than it can prevent. Heavy dieting may include exercising .
             a lot, restriction of foods and also amounts of food eaten ("Eating Disorders"1). Sometimes when a person's sole goal in life is to be thin heavy dieting can go wrong.