...This has been caused by over excessive dieting and exercising. About 13% of women the age over 50. Have been affected. In a average study 79% has claimed that their weight has affected their self esteem. “A first-of-a-kind study looking at older women finds that eating disorders are common -- and 62% of those surveyed say their weight or shape has damaged their lives”. Janice, Lloyd and TODAY USA. "Body Image Can Affect More Than Just Teens."This leads to mental illnesses as depression and anxiety. The body image or at least the perfect body has been an unhealthy image to your mind. I think the fact of obesity being a big problem, that is also a big problem for them. Bullying for being fat or ‘flat’ can be a problem. Fat is a term for being as skinny as a stick and that is judged mostly on...
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...determined by social acceptance but rather self-acceptance. In today’s culture we are impressed with the belief that size is what determines beauty. These ideas start with the waist size of run way models and then are reinforced by the size 2 mannequins standing in department windows. Instead of having a positive effect on the perception of body image, it instead breeds unhealthy eating habits that deny the body necessary nutrients causing detrimental health damage for those who want to achieve this look. It is completely unrealistic that every person can be a size 2; as human beings we are all born with our own unique genetics that develop our individual size and shape. In the article “Discover the Art In You” by Stephan Boyle an image is shown of a female body that is rail thin wearing only short skin tight shorts with the words “UGLY, MUST BE SKINNIER, TOO BIG and SCARY” on the arms and legs and in bold black letters “NOT FLAT” written across the stomach area. This is a great representation of the negative psychological effects that develop when society pushes subliminal messages of what is considered beautiful and what is not. For those that are effected by the superficial interpretation of beauty, mental and physical health becomes endangered. Although our culture encourages the mindset that body size defines beauty it must be established for all rational purposes, it is not true....
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...whether the media helps or hurts more in its overall impacts. The multimedia sources consist of magazines, advertisements, TV shows, and social pages such as Instagram, SnapChat, Twitter, and Facebook, all in which society seems to be addicted to. The real question is, is having all of these sources of media positively or negatively affecting society? Some people blame the media for harming society by causing eating disorders and a low self esteem. On the other hand, many others believe that it helps society in several ways such as keeping people physically fit and boosting self confidence by posting selfies. While...
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...Eating Disorders The two main eating disorders faced are Anorexia and Bulimia. Anorexia Nervosa, commonly called Anorexia, is an eating disorder in which the person loses more weight than what is considered healthy. This may be through a lack of eating, extreme “dieting,” or excessive exercise. Bulimia Nervosa, or Bulimia, is when someone purges on food and in feeling guilty about it, makes their self throw up. This is a personal matter because I have seen what eating disorders do to people and I have had personal experience with Bulimia Nervosa. This is a public matter because 30 million men and women suffer from eating disorders. Out of these 30 million, only one in ten people is able to get help. Eighty-six percent of students report an onset of an eating disorder by age twenty. However, this can strike at any time. Forty to Sixty percent of elementary school girls are concerned about becoming fat. Some say it may just be a stage. However, another study was taken in college. Out of 185 female students, fifty-eight percent felt pressure to be a certain weight. With so much pressure to look a certain way or weigh a certain number, along with the pressure of fitting in and finding friends how can one person continue to be stable? This pressure may cause teens and adults to be unsocial. Most of the time, it makes them feel as if they aren’t good enough. Anorexia and Bulimia are mostly caused by insecurity. Because of their insecurity, they constantly push themselves to...
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...Specific Purpose: To educate my audience about Anorexia Nervosa. Thesis Statement: Just a glance at all the horrifying aspects of Anorexia Nervosa and how it affects the mind and body. I. Introduction: A. Attention Getter: In this world there are 10 to 30 million Americans who are challenged everyday with an eating disorder (Schacter, Gilbert, Wegner, P 288) B. Thesis Statement: Just a glance at all the horrifying aspects of Anorexia Nervosa and how it affects the mind and body. C. Credibility Statement: Ever since I was thirteen years old, I have had this image engraved into my mind. The perfect body type. Something I didn’t ever really have. But once of my friends took the “perfect image” to the next level, that’s when I decided to educate myself on Anorexia Nervosa. D. Importance of Topic: Unfortunately, we live in a world where if you are built “big boned” you’re ugly, if you are too skinny, you’re ugly, if you have a certain hair color, you’re ugly, and if you have acne, you’re ugly. But if you’re blonde, you’re beautiful, if you are tan, you’re beautiful, and if you are from California, you’re beautiful. In this world there is no winning unless you are Jennifer Lopez, Halle Berry, or Scarlett Johansson. E. Preview: The main points that I’ll be covering will give a better understanding on what leads people to become anorexic, how it effects the mind and body, and other simple signs that occur when someone is dealing with being anorexic...
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...Bulimia Nervosa – The issues – Nutrition problem Bulimia is an eating disorder, when you eat a lot of food and then allow a short amount of time before forcing your body to regurgitate it out, normally by vomiting however, sometimes by taking a laxative or excessive exercise. Bulimia usually comes with anorexia or large stints of time with out eating. This happens when the victim is suffering under extreme anxiety to keep the body under a self-inflicted weight. If this continues over a long period of time there can be potassium loss and health deterioration. Bulimia typically comes with depressive symptoms also many individuals who have Bulimia also have a psychiatric disorder. There is a lot of research and it is strongly believed that Bulimia is genetic. Adolescent women are mainly at risk as 95 % of people with Bulimia are women. One of the biggest causes of bulimia nervosa is social media; the media portrays this idea of a perfect body. Scientist argue that extreme concern with body shape mixed with depression and anxiety can result in strict and crazy dieting. Another cause is the driving to be thin, like a model. People driving to look and feel what the media portrays as this ideal beautiful people are binging on food and then regurgitate it up. The treatments for Bulimia nervosa one is; Psychotherapy and psychosocial therapy. Psychotherapy for bulimia mainly focus’s on the goal which helps the patient figure out the current and personal problems that are...
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...matters and makes a person beautiful is who you are, and that defines the grace in a person, if only it were true. Many people suffer with the pressures of their physical appearance. People, especially women fear the judgment of others and let the media set the ideal look that is accepted into our society. This is where the eating disorders such as anorexia manifest. Anorexia Nervosa is a eating disorder that is life-threating. Elements of this disorder involve of a great and intense fear of gaining weight, a body that is 15 percent lower than a normal person’s body, and most of all refuse to except they have a serious illness. People with anorexia keep an extreme low body weight using different methods such as over exercising, eating very limited portions of food, overuse of laxatives, or starvation. Someone with anorexia eat less than 1,000 calories a day. The diet of an anorexic person includes low calorie foods such as carrots, celery, or lettuce, most of the time eating meat is eliminate from there diet. This disorder usually is more common in women than in males. About 90 percent who develop it are women. It tends to develop in the teen years of girls and in young women. People who are dancers, models, actors, and athletes are the most at risk for developing this disorder because of the pressure of having the “Ideal look”. People who have anxiety disorders or depression also have high risk of developing anorexia. Media plays a big factor in eating disorders like anorexia...
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...ears, an elongated trunk or a tail and neither are you accomplished enough to fly. So forget the idea of swaying the opposite sex that way. Being fat is only bearable till the age of five. After that you just become a fat blob having imaginary friends. It is time that you wake up and smell the coffee and get real. Embrace the fact that you are a lazy, good-for-nothing person who has nothing better to than sit around all day, eating and pitying yourself. However, you my friends, still have a shot at getting a life. I can say this because it’s a “been there done that” case with me. I have recuperated myself from a juncture where most people would give up. And today, after 450 pounds less, I implore you to take a look at yourself and end your morbid and seedy existence. I am not saying that you go and jump to your demise but rather, improve your health. All those hotdogs, hamburgers, double cheese burgers, nachos, burritos, pizzas, fries and chips will not help you. I KNOW what you want. You want a good job, a beautiful domicile, a 6 digit salary, a beautiful and extremely attractive wife with a couple of dozen “inamoratas” or girlfriends-if you will, on top. This is the suite we all look for. I know I do! As for the womenfolk, I know you want the picture-perfect husband who heeds you, spends wastefully on you and does not say a word when you ask him to take you for spending. I know that at this time, a select few of you listening to me are probably thinking that they are content...
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...Eating sugar In the short story, ”Eating Sugar” by Catherine Merriman, we are introduced to the theme of Xenophobia; the irrational fear of places or people that seem foreign to oneself. This is done as an indirect criticism of the prejudiced tendency of modern society, as people often seem to frown upon those who appear unfamiliar, and look at them as primitive and hostile. We are, through a third-person, non-omniscient narrator presented to a family of three, the father Alex and the mother Eileen, who are visiting their daughter Suzanne who works as a teacher in Thailand. The narrator is non-omniscient, as the story is told from Alex’s perspective, and the reader therefore does not become aware of neither Eileen nor Suzanne’s thoughts. The story starts in medias res, as it begins in the middle of the action, when the family comes back from a trip to the waterfall, and realizes that they are lost. They have been down at a waterfall, and Alex suspects that they might have taken a wrong turn, hence “three hours ago, this forest clearing had been a busy market…”and it becomes apparent, that they are not aware of their location, and they need help to get home, which they come to receive from 4 Thai-men who randomly walks by. Eileen, as well as Alex, seems to possess a dislike of Thailand, as seen in the quote “Eileen found Thailand stressful, and wasn't ashamed to show it. Alex was grateful to her. Her constantly-expressed anxiety kept his own fear suppressed.” This quite...
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...truly affects some people. Hollywood is seen as a place of glamour, riches, fame and beautiful people everywhere. Almost like a fairytale, the streets are lined up with stars and models wearing the hottest clothes in the most expensive rides imaginable. To some, they want to be one of those beautiful people that looks like a model and will do anything to make it possible. After all, in the media beautiful is what is in, skinny models that weigh less than a hundred pounds. (Von, Schlegal, Amanda, 2012) When we watch movies and TV shows we notice that the leading actor is always skinny. Most of the time, they are well liked surrounded with friends and if there so happens to be an overweight actor, it’s usually the main actors best friend. Weight is portrayed in almost everything we watch and listen too. Of course you won’t see a big neon sign saying, “Be skinny no matter what” but you hear the jokes and see what glory weight makes. When a movie like James Bond 007 has a part for the sexy villain, who is cast? Not an overweight woman, no you see a young woman that is skinny. These images show us that skinny is what is beautiful and if the young girls every want that prince they seen on Disney movies; they won’t get him unless they look like princesses, which all happens to be skinny. There has never been a princess that is overweight. (Media influence on youth, 2012) You have to ask yourself, who is affected more by the media. The answer is a tossup. Yes the media outlets like...
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...wanting to be skinny and beautiful like the models they see on the TV set with shows like American Next Top Model and in magazines. This aspiration often becomes a fascination and girls begin to see this as being a needed distinguishing characteristic. Most teenage years for girl are spent trying to get a curtain look and their adult years are spent trying different diets and are exercises trying to acquire this look. This look is the thin super model look. This fixation of their look and weight has led to an increasing number of females with eating disorders. Eating disorders in women can have many causes but one main cause is the fixation to be thin and beautiful. Low self-esteem in the way they look mixed with uncontrollable exercising plays a big put in it. TV, internet, and magazines display the message that being thin is beautiful. Most little girls, teen age girls, and women have the yearning to look like actresses from shows like American Next Top Model and magazines like Vogue. Now the physical abuse to their bodies start because of a negative comment about their looks or which can lead to an eating disorder. Eating disorder is a severe problem. Body shape, weight, fat, food, and perfectionism and by feelings of powerlessness and low self-esteem are characters of eating disorders says Personal Counseling & Resources. Three of the most common eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating or compulsive eating disorder. According to Anorexia...
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...Nicole Gallucio English 102 Prof. Rhodes October 25th, 2010 Are Eating Disorders Caused By the Media? Have you ever looked in a magazine or watched a fashion show on television? If you have then you have been subjected to the media portraying models as the hottest thing on the planet. What you don’t know is that a good portion of these models are suffering from eating disorders. I believe the media is to blame for our nation’s epidemic of eating disorders because, not only do magazines and television portray skinny to be in, but also songs in our culture convey the attitude “…that only the beautiful and thin are valued and loved” (Hesse-Biber 88). Some women and men in the world are happy about how they look. Some think that they are ugly and reach toward plastic surgery, but even more think that the only way they can be happy is by starving themselves, or throwing up everything they have eaten that day. In this paper I will discuss facts and information on how the media is to blame for our nation’s epidemic, the pro’s and con’s to eating disorders and the media, and a few possibilities on how to fix this epidemic before it starts to spiral out of control. When you think about the billions and billions of people in this world, it is hard to believe that “2 million Americans-most of them women and girls-do suffer from eating disorders” (Gorman 110). That number is shocking isn’t it? How about the fact that “approximately 1 in 150 teenage girls in the U.S. falls prey...
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...Contributing Factors to Various Eating Disorders Introduction The proposed topic discussed throughout this research will be eating disorders, specifically on the contributions to various eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa, athletica nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating. Through much research, it is shown there are larger causes to these eating disorders. It is no longer a psychological factor (brain chemical misbalance). There are greater forces that influence eating disorders such as the mass media, family, stress (sense of identity), community (peers/school), and negative body image (which links to mass media). It is important to know these contributions to eating disorders because, the more one knows about the various factors for an eating disorder, the easier it will become to treat these disorders (help one suffering with an eating disorder cope and become healthier.) Throughout the 21st century, eating disorders have become more common among North American teens. With a higher percentage rate of eating disorders in the 21st century, (Sneddon, 1999, p.35) it shows it is an area that should have greater focus. Not only does it have a negative impact on the individual who is battling it, it has a negative impact on society; an impact that could destroy our society – mentally if we (as a community/society) do not help or treat this in the way it should be. An eating disorder can tear apart someone’s morals, eat at their brain – which means with it becoming more...
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...Morgan James Biology 1020 March 3, 2015 Video Title: “Nova: Dying to Be Thin” Plot Summary The video I viewed was “Nova: Dying to Be Thin”. The video tells the story of some young girls who face anorexia, bulimia, and other eating disorders that are on the rise. I chose to view this video because I use to always want to be thin and at one point in my life I found myself struggling with bulimia. Not many people would believe that I struggled with bulimia because of how I appear to look, but you would be surprised what a person has gone through. That is why you should never judge a book by its cover. The main focus of this video is telling different stories, views, and situations dealing with eating disorders. According to the narrator a ballerina...
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...means that, most of the time, you see yourself accurately and you feel comfortable in your own body. Many women of all sizes and ages struggle with issues involving confidence and body image. Whether it’s the size of your nose or the size of your lips, hair or skin color, More than 90 percent of girls – age 15 to 17 years – want to change at least one aspect of their physical appearance. Body weight of course ranking in at the highest. Images in the media today project an unrealistic and even dangerous standard of feminine beauty that can have a powerful influence on the way women view themselves. Young girls are buying into waist training belts and lip injections just to fulfill the image of celebrities that they admire such as Kylie Jenner and Nicki Minaj. Images of Women in the Media Thinness is idealized and expected for women to be considered “attractive”. The media is bombarded with images of women who fulfill these unrealistic standards. Making it seem as if it is normal for women to live...
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