Anorexia Nervosa Nurture
Anorexia Nervosa is Caused by Nurture
“Beauty can make or break you” is a message that constantly bombards our lives through the media, friends and family. Television weight loss infomercials and celebrities battling eating disorders in Hollywood furthermore reinforces this message. These daily scenes of corruption cause adolescences to “equate success and beauty and popularity with a thin body” (Walsh 41). In our culture, media is a very influential Agent of Socialization amongst teenagers who grew up in this technological era, and this ultimately leads to the total indulgence in every message the media conveys. In the 21st century the media shows that the ideal women should be tall and thin, this has created dangerous expectation. Many females concentrate on becoming slimmer to emulate what the media advertises since little can be done to change the height of a person. It is not uncommon in our present age to find many females obsessed with diets to the extreme and some of these cases develop into Anorexia Nervosa. Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder where patients are characterized by low body weight and body image distortion. All cases of Anorexia Nervosa is not bestowed upon a person naturally, that is to say you do not inherit this disorder through genetics. Anorexia Nervosa is a disorder that develops because of the influences and therefore nurture …show more content…
These daily messages affect everyone; however, the effects are more devastating with the youth. Many youths of this generation try to achieve the thin ideal. While parents and friends are constantly talking about weight issues, it may effect the females to focus on their outer appearance but not their inner appearance. When vanity goes too far, it may cause serious consequence like Anorexia Nervosa. Anorexia Nervosa is developed from
“Beauty can make or break you” is a message that constantly bombards our lives through the media, friends and family. Television weight loss infomercials and celebrities battling eating disorders in Hollywood furthermore reinforces this message. These daily scenes of corruption cause adolescences to “equate success and beauty and popularity with a thin body” (Walsh 41). In our culture, media is a very influential Agent of Socialization amongst teenagers who grew up in this technological era, and this ultimately leads to the total indulgence in every message the media conveys. In the 21st century the media shows that the ideal women should be tall and thin, this has created dangerous expectation. Many females concentrate on becoming slimmer to emulate what the media advertises since little can be done to change the height of a person. It is not uncommon in our present age to find many females obsessed with diets to the extreme and some of these cases develop into Anorexia Nervosa. Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder where patients are characterized by low body weight and body image distortion. All cases of Anorexia Nervosa is not bestowed upon a person naturally, that is to say you do not inherit this disorder through genetics. Anorexia Nervosa is a disorder that develops because of the influences and therefore nurture …show more content…
These daily messages affect everyone; however, the effects are more devastating with the youth. Many youths of this generation try to achieve the thin ideal. While parents and friends are constantly talking about weight issues, it may effect the females to focus on their outer appearance but not their inner appearance. When vanity goes too far, it may cause serious consequence like Anorexia Nervosa. Anorexia Nervosa is developed from