Ngoc A. Tran Mr. Johnson English 1301-06
Eating Disorder As I look through a Vogues magazine, I notices that almost every models presented is under a hundred pounds. We all compare ourselves to these thin models and try to achieve the same appearance as theirs. For some of us it may be an easy achievement, but for others it seems impossible. In our society, being extremely thin is the standard of beauty for women and represents success, happiness, and self-confident. Women are bombarded with messages from the media that they must diet and exercise to meet this standard. We look at these thin models as normal and ourselves as abnormal. But according to the National Eating Disorders Association, these models weight 23 percent less than the average woman. In order to achieve this so called normal appearance, women will ruthlessly harm their bodies.
At one point in history, a woman of an average weight or even a tad overweight was considered healthy. In today’s society, however, the ideal image has been changed and how girls and women all over the world suffer under the pressure to be skinny and lose weight. This growing trend overtaking the present media is more than often what causes anorexia and bulimia, which are the two most common types of eating disorder. Anorexia is the refusal to eat enough food so that your body can maintain healthy. Bulimia is a pattern of eating large quantity of food in a short period of time followed by vomiting. Females are particularly vulnerable to developing eating disorders. Eight million girls and women have eating disorders. Most women consider themselves over weight, even though they fit the ideal weight standards. Who is to be blame for this? In most cases, the media is at least partly blamed. The majority of ads in magazines show super-skinny models advertising nice clothes, make-up, and jewelry. Women are led to believe that they are not desirable enough to the public; therefore, they must...