Assignment 3-1

Television series, soap operas, and magazines have shown society slim and petite women. Young girls fantasize about Brittney Spears, Christina Aquilera, Shaikra or Jessica Alba. All of the people are considered very beautiful and have “the perfect body”. There is nothing wrong with liking famous people or even trying to exercise and eat healthy to obtain their looks, but it is when the young girls over do the eating and exercising or the lack of eating.
There are many girls who are struggling with an eating disorder. According to WebMD, at least one out of every seven women will have or will struggle with an eating disorder. That is an alarming high rate. There are over 59% of girls who feel they are overweight, so they do anything and everything they can to try to lose the “excess” weight. There are two most common eating disorders. One is anorexia nervosa and the other is bulimia nervosa. Anorexia nervosa is the eating disorder where a person will not eat the amount of food to stay healthy. The person will skip start by skipping breakfast, then skip lunch, then skip dinner, until eventually eating items like a cracker or two all day. Bulimia nervosa is where a person will go through cycles of binge eating and then vomit the food up almost immediately after eating (WebMD). Some people will also take a bunch of laxatives to remove the food from their body.
Everywhere you look, you see advertisements for weight lose, or a new diet pill to help you lose 10 pounds in a week. We are shown television commercials for Victoria’s Secret, or the famous people walking along on the beach in their skimpy bathing suits. Young girls are impressionable. Most young girls have low self-esteems; have parents that force them into perfection, or trying to please someone else. In a society where all you see is young models, or actresses with a "perfect" size, is it any wonder that so many girls have eating disorders?

http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/bulimia-nervosa/understanding-eating-disorders-teens