regarding eating disorders has expanded beyond what use to just be looked at as anorexia and bulimia or disorders that just associated with malnutrition. Just
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Amanda Bullock 10/30/12 Psych 401H Professor Banyard Stick Figure Stick Figure by Lori Gottlieb is a first person account of a young girl and her battle with anorexia nervosa. The book is composed of diary entries from when Lori was a young girl‚ at age eleven. By seeing her personal thoughts and stories from the time when she was battling this disorder gives us a very close look at what drove her obsession with being thin: mainly her mother and peers‚ who were also obsessed with looking “perfect”
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According to the Media Dynamics publication‚ Media Matters‚ an average adult has a potential daily exposure to approximately 600-625 advertisements in any form. These exposures come from all media mediums; television‚ radio‚ newspaper‚ magazines‚ and internet. There are advertisements for everything from juice to condoms‚ fruit snacks to Viagra‚ Old Navy clothing sales to perfumes and Victoria’s Secret. The media exposes viewers to extremes between harmless and persuasive material and highly sensitive
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and some of its potential life-threatening health problems include but are not limited to heart disease‚ stroke‚ and diabetes. Metabolic syndrome is preventable and reversible (Web). What serious consequences do Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia have? Health consequences of Anorexia Nervosa are as follows: -Abnormally slow heart rate and blood pressure. -Reduction of bone density. -Muscle loss and weakness. -Severed dehydration resulting in kidney failure. -Fainting‚ fatigue‚ and overall weakness
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An Unhealthy Image Over the years‚ models have become skinnier and skinnier‚ and now most models are just too thin. Being a fashion model went hand-in-hand with being slim‚ but now being a fashion model goes hand-in-hand with no body fat whatsoever. It took the death of a young adult at a fashion show taking place during Fashion Week for officials in Madrid to finally say ’No more ’ to overly underweight models‚ and others are being to follow suit. Luisel Ramos was one of Uruguay ’s top fashion
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Confirmatio: Body Image and the Media There is an evident overexposure to media which emphasizes the importance of being attractive. The National Eating Disorders Association reports “sexually objectified images of girls and women in advertisements are most likely to appear men’s magazines; second most prevalent directed at adolescent girls. The message communicated is clear: the sexually portrayed women we see in the media stand as the standard of beauty. Dove outlined the Photoshop process of
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or turn on the television to get involved in all kinds of negative experiences. It really is that easy. One of the main influences on children by the media is obesity and anorexia. Who would imagine that some images or a video could push a child to increase the dose of food or reduce it? According to the Anorexia Nervosa and Related Eating Disorder organization‚ more than half of teenage girls are on diets or think they should be. The displays of teenage girls by a TV show or advertising even
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Review-Journal. 11 Mar 2012: J.5. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 21 Sep 2012. Dutta‚ Kunal. "Girls Under 11 Go Without Food to Gain ’Ideal ’ Shape." The Independent on Sunday. 30 Oct 2011: 10. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 21 Sep 2012. Harmon‚ Dan. Anorexia Nervosa starving for attention. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers‚ 1999. Print. Hesse-Biber‚ Sharlene. Am I Thin Enough Yet? The Cult of Thinness and the Commercialization of Identity. New York: Oxford University Press‚ 1996. Print. Maziarz Christmann
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Bianca‚ thirteen years old‚ worked a lot harder in gym‚ walked home faster than she usually would‚ and skipped meals when she noticed she had less space between her thighs. Seven year old Sharon goes to an eating disorder hospital and faints multiple times because she thinks she is fat. Bryan‚ twenty-one years old‚ overdosed on steroids and ended up in the hospital because he was not as big and built as the other guys in the gym. People constantly compare themselves and never seem satisfied with
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