Today's society's image of "the perfect female body " could be a leading cause of some eating disorders such as Anorexia, a disorder affecting 1.2 million people in this country between the ages of 12 to 25 according to the Mayo Clinic, by promoting the use of super-skinny models to use as magazine cover girls and by "air-brushing " or "retouching " images of young women in fashion magazines and blogs such as Tumblr, Teen Vogue, or Seventeen ("Beyond Thin ").
Girls are often pressured to be thinner or look prettier, especially girls in high school. They all want to be that girl who gets all the attention from everyone else. Those magazines have such a large influence on people's body image, especially young girls ages 13-16, by putting large amounts of pressure on them to develop unhealthy behaviors, just so they can get the "ideal body shape " (Dutta). Lizzie Pollard, a 19 year old medical student at King's College in Southampton, London, admitted to being bullied into losing weight, and it horribly decreased her health (Beyond Thin). "Anorexia is lonely. It took over my own life and takes everything away from you, " she says. Girls can get bullied at school by other girls because they aren't pretty enough, or they're different from everyone else, causing them to stop eating and losing excessive amounts of weight. .
Also, fashion magazines promote the thinner figures of models. A study performed by Mackenzie Carpenter from The Post-Gazette, shows that 53% of young girls are unhappy with their body ("Beyond Thin "). Another study shows that almost two-thirds of 14-15 year olds want to lose weight (Dutta). Fashion magazines "retouch " or "airbrush " their models to look better. Because of this, girls read those magazines and see the image of what they think they are supposed to look like, which leads to low-self esteem issues.
Another leading cause could be that girls are inspired by celebrities to shrink their figures.
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This gender difference may reflect our societies different expectations for men and women."2 You would think that this disease would work in reverse for men. Instead of loosing weight and looking puny, men are looked at as a strong point in society, and in order for the male to be accepted, he must be in pristine physical shape. ... If you think of an image in society today, you will see either a gorgeous male or female, whether tall or not; they are always thin, protecting themselves from being ridiculed. ... Being seen as a role model or not, and even looking up to these role models, society...
Lastly, I believe that society should change the way "beautiful" females are portrayed. ... Society can lower the number of people with Anorexia and Bulimia by showing heavier people on T.V., in movies, and on the walkway. ... Why do we not show more realistically sized women in society? ... The solution to Anorexia and Bulimia is not simple. ... Warning Signs of Anorexia: 1. ...
Anorexia has been identified as on the rise in the West, in societies which themselves are increasingly obsessed with food, diet, shape and body image. Anorexia Nervosa is said to arise in a culture that makes eating a problematic conversion of nature by culture. Anorexia Nervosa can be described as involving the gross and inappropriate entanglement of two issues on the one hand, weight and eating control, and, on the other, what might be described as personal and emotional control. ... Current health information collected report that more than half of anorexia sufferers have been sexuall...
In our society, women are constantly told and shown what the "perfect body" is. ... " Anorexia is a very serious eating disorder. ... Anorexia also runs in families. ... Culture and genetics are just two of the big causes of anorexia. ... This society and media should stand up for people who are not a size 0. ...
(P.26 Anorexia) Loss of appetite or refusal to eat anything is known medically as Anorexia Nervosa. ... In a society obsessed with thinness nearly every American man, women and child has suffered at one time or another with issues of weight, body shape and self-image. ... I feel that our society today puts too much emphasis on what they think we are supposed to look like. Society thinks that to be beautiful and perfect we should be a size 3. With how society judges people today we are so concerned about what we look like rather than how we feel. ...
With her size fourteen to sixteen figure, it is doubtful that society's standards would approve Marilyn Monroe today. ... This paper is going to discuss the cycles of anorexia nervosa. ... The anorectic victim does not look "thin" as society's standards portray, but are in fact a walking skeleton with the absence of subcutaneous fat. ... Although there are two types of anorexia nervosa, primary and secondary, primary anorexia nervosa is the most common, and the type being discussed in this paper. ... Only one of every 10 anorexia nervosa patients are male. ...
Anorexia nervosa is a disease with a long history. ... About that same time, Sir William Gull termed the disorder anorexia nervosa when he submitted a paper to London Clinical Society. ... Anorexia nervosa affects 0.9-2.2% of women over a lifetime. ... The American Psychiatric Society first recognized anorexia nervosa in the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. ... Researchers have found a genetic predisposition for anorexia, and there are several genetic markers that predict anorexia in certain individuals. ...
