What are we doing???? (Eating disorders - how are they caused?)

Member Name: kaz_me

Product:	Eating disorders - how are they caused?
Date:	29/03/02 (57 review reads)
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Advantages: Are there any?

Disadvantages: Our society has to change!

In our society, many women are rewarded for being thin. Fashions in body shape change and it is currently popular to be thin. You only have to look at Miss America contests to see evidence of this. More than half of
Miss America contestants are 15% or more below their expected body weight.

What is going on with our world? Whether we are aware of it or not, we are driving women, and men for that matter, to become obsessed with the way they look and their weight in particular.

Anorexia is very rare within many eastern cultures. astern girls are usually slim, even underweight, so they don't share this "fear of fatness" that we in the western society seem to have.

In the west, obesity is often seen as a sign of weak control but the Chinese traditionally have even valued fatness seeing thinness as a sign of ill health.

We as a society need to change our views for things to change.... Good luck......

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