Monday, March 8, 2010

blog 7

An eating disorder is characterized by disordered eating: starving yourself, binging, purging, eating only extremely healthy foods. Accompanying the disordered behavior is a mental attitude that involves some kind of body dysmorphia.

I think that fashion and film industries are partially to blame when it comes to encouraging eating disorders among young people. Fashion models on the runway and in magazines are usually extremely thin because the clothes hang on them as they would on a hanger. They are made up to look beautiful and glamourous. Actresses also are under pressure to remain extremely thin. They have resources such as nutritionists and trainers that ordinary people don't, which is why they can get away with losing baby weight really quickly, for example.










so why do eating disorders surprise us?

1 comment:

  1. I completely agree with you Annika. The film and television world forces many of its celebrities into starving themselves in order to fit a certain persona or look. This pressure to conform to certain sizes or weights is very unhealthy for people as well as unsafe. We are causing permanent damage to ourselves which could lead to death.

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