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This 5 page report discusses eating disorders and the role played
by the media in their development. Some of the modern world’s
most pervasive images are those of what it means to be beautiful.
Television, print media, movies, in fact, anything to do with
modern popular culture shows that beauty equates with thinness --
primarily for women. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_BWeatdis.doc
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anything to do with modern popular culture shows that beauty equates with thinness -- primarily for women. It has only been in the past few years that there has
been any support or admiration for "normal" sized women. Prior to that, all that supposedly mattered regarding a woman was that she was remarkably thin. If she wasnt,
she was clearly worthless. Dissatisfaction with the normal (and healthy) human body is encouraged and the drive for thinness, which often includes preoccupation with weight and dieting and fear
of weight gain, is a result of societys pressure to possess "an ideal body." When a young woman who is already dealing with the pressures of moving into adulthood fails
to reach this ideal, she may feel depressed because she does not perceive herself as attractive and therefore of little worth or value. Occurrence of Eating Disorders The contradictory
attitudes about eating and food that cause serious problems for so many young women are remarkably demoralizing and debilitating when they are manifest in the eating disorders, anorexia and bulimia.
Anorexia nervosa (its Greek and Latin roots mean "lack of appetite of nervous origin") and bulimia nervosa ("oxlike hunger of nervous origin") most often occur in early or middle adolescence.
A girl or young woman begins to systematically starve herself and sometimes exercise compulsively as well. Her weight falls and her state of health and well-being declines signficantly, but she
continues to deny that her behavior is either abnormal or dangerous. She may even say she feels or looks fat and express a certain level of disgust with herself while
those around her can all see that she is dangerously under-weight (Harvard Mental Health Letter 1). Virtually all members of American society are repeatedly exposed to images of glamorous (and
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