Is Society to blame For Anorexia
Anorexia nervosa is a life-threaten eating disorder defined by refusal to maintain body weight. Other essential features of this disorder include an intense fear of gaining weight, a distorted body image, and an absence of at least three consecutive menstrual cycles (amenorrhoea) when otherwise expected to occur in women. Sometimes people starve and binge, depending on the extent of weight loss. This can be physically very dangerous.
The argument I plan to make is if anorexia is caused by pressures made on mainly young woman 2 look perfect by society. Many people feel people affected by anorexia are trying to fulfil a culturally imposed ideal body image, which stresses thinness. Many anorexics restrict their daily intake to 1,00 calories or less. Most avoid fatting high calorie foods and eliminate red meat or meat altogether. The diet of persons with anorexia may consist almost completely of low calorie vegetables.
Anorexia nervosa is the third most common chronic illness in adolescent girls and is estimated to occur in 0.5% to 3% of all teenagers. Anorexia mainly occurs in young adolescent girls but over the past 40 years it has increased 3 times in young adult women. 90% of reported cases of anorexia are in women, but the rate in men appears to be increasing, as men are more likely to conceal eating disorder than woman.
Many things can trigger anorexia such as low self-esteem, biochemical factors psychiatric disorders, social and culture pressures, family pressures, genetic predisportion. People with anorexia tend to be perfectionists. They also often lack a sense identity. Movies, TV, and magazines tend to send out the advantages of being thin. Females who are thin are not rejected, but instead are considered glamorous and sexy. They tend to live in a fantasyland were life is perfect if you are thin.
Anorexia nervosa is a life-threaten eating disorder defined by refusal to maintain body weight. Other essential features of this disorder include an intense fear of gaining weight, a distorted body image, and an absence of at least three consecutive menstrual cycles (amenorrhoea) when otherwise expected to occur in women. Sometimes people starve and binge, depending on the extent of weight loss. This can be physically very dangerous.
The argument I plan to make is if anorexia is caused by pressures made on mainly young woman 2 look perfect by society. Many people feel people affected by anorexia are trying to fulfil a culturally imposed ideal body image, which stresses thinness. Many anorexics restrict their daily intake to 1,00 calories or less. Most avoid fatting high calorie foods and eliminate red meat or meat altogether. The diet of persons with anorexia may consist almost completely of low calorie vegetables.
Anorexia nervosa is the third most common chronic illness in adolescent girls and is estimated to occur in 0.5% to 3% of all teenagers. Anorexia mainly occurs in young adolescent girls but over the past 40 years it has increased 3 times in young adult women. 90% of reported cases of anorexia are in women, but the rate in men appears to be increasing, as men are more likely to conceal eating disorder than woman.
Many things can trigger anorexia such as low self-esteem, biochemical factors psychiatric disorders, social and culture pressures, family pressures, genetic predisportion. People with anorexia tend to be perfectionists. They also often lack a sense identity. Movies, TV, and magazines tend to send out the advantages of being thin. Females who are thin are not rejected, but instead are considered glamorous and sexy. They tend to live in a fantasyland were life is perfect if you are thin.
