Eating Disorders: Unhealthy and Dangerous
Eating Disorders: Unhealthy and Dangerous
Maintaining a healthy weight is always a good thing. Usually in efforts to make their bodies look good, girls tend to take extremes with either bulimia or anorexia not realizing the dangers, and the more effective and healthy ways to look good. Both bulimia and anorexia are medical conditions that take extreme and dangerous routes. In efforts to sell a certain look, the media portrays a girl’s beauty in how skinny she is, not realizing how many young girls try to imitate this same look. But like everything else, moderation is the key. Instead of taking the easy way out, many other ways can be found to help a person physically and in a safe manner. The pressure for girls to look a certain way is a big factor that contributes to eating disorders. The methods the media uses to advertise their products, puts pressure on girls to be thin leading to eating disorders (Eve’s Apple, pg, 30). The media basically portrays all the models and celebrities as flawless and extremely skinny which gets set as society’s norm. When in reality looking flawless and having no fat goes outside of the norm, because no one is perfect. “Young girls see these stereotypical images of what a woman should look like in advertisements and in trying to achieve that look, they can develop low self-esteem, depression, and eating disorders”(Body Image, pg,89). While neither bulimia nor anorexia is better than the other, they are both different extremes when it comes to eating disorders. Bulimia causes girls to eat excessive amounts of food and then throw it up later, while with anorexia, girls starve their bodies and don’t eat anything. Whether or not the media should be blamed for putting pressure on young girls to be thin is a very controversial topic. While many can debate that the media shouldn’t take full blame because all they’re doing is advertising to get their products sold, others disagree. A National Study that the Girl Scouts of the USA
Maintaining a healthy weight is always a good thing. Usually in efforts to make their bodies look good, girls tend to take extremes with either bulimia or anorexia not realizing the dangers, and the more effective and healthy ways to look good. Both bulimia and anorexia are medical conditions that take extreme and dangerous routes. In efforts to sell a certain look, the media portrays a girl’s beauty in how skinny she is, not realizing how many young girls try to imitate this same look. But like everything else, moderation is the key. Instead of taking the easy way out, many other ways can be found to help a person physically and in a safe manner. The pressure for girls to look a certain way is a big factor that contributes to eating disorders. The methods the media uses to advertise their products, puts pressure on girls to be thin leading to eating disorders (Eve’s Apple, pg, 30). The media basically portrays all the models and celebrities as flawless and extremely skinny which gets set as society’s norm. When in reality looking flawless and having no fat goes outside of the norm, because no one is perfect. “Young girls see these stereotypical images of what a woman should look like in advertisements and in trying to achieve that look, they can develop low self-esteem, depression, and eating disorders”(Body Image, pg,89). While neither bulimia nor anorexia is better than the other, they are both different extremes when it comes to eating disorders. Bulimia causes girls to eat excessive amounts of food and then throw it up later, while with anorexia, girls starve their bodies and don’t eat anything. Whether or not the media should be blamed for putting pressure on young girls to be thin is a very controversial topic. While many can debate that the media shouldn’t take full blame because all they’re doing is advertising to get their products sold, others disagree. A National Study that the Girl Scouts of the USA