Hot dogs, pizza, potato chips, soda, and cheeseburgers all come to mind when I think of American foods. America is known for having a fairly large population of obesity and over eating. Most events we engage in involves food. If you go to a ball game there’s a concession stand, if you have a meeting to attend there is probably finger foods, If you host a party more than likely you provide your guest with h’orderves, bar-b-que’s, holiday dinners, etc. Sadly there are many people struggling to maintain a healthy and balanced diet and tend to overeat, but what about that small percentage of people who don’t eat enough? Anorexia is a very serious psychiatric disorder in which those suffering from it feel their best only by being as thin as possible.
I stumbled upon two works discussing the “hush-hush” issue of women battling Anorexia nervosa. “The Other Side of Well-being-What Makes a Young Woman Become Anorectic?” is a scholarly journal discussing research aiming to unfold the factors that cause young women to be come anorectic. Similarly, I found an article on the online source of the New York Times about a personal perspective of anorexia. Because of the first hand experience of anorexia, the author of the NYT article had a more personal tone and rhetoric as compared to the journal with educational and research based text.
The scholarly journal refers to the Western world’s idea of beauty. Everyone wants to look like what they see in magazines and on television, which is a size 0-2 model. Ironically enough, most people are “fatter than ever.” According to Savukoski, author of the journal, the eating disorder the disease became aware to the public in the late 1990s. Savukoski seems to center her research on the idea that the media is to blame for the causation of this disorder. “Media, indeed, maintains the excessive glorification of slimness and the idea of beauty resulting first and foremost from skinny slimness. Slimness seems to guarantee succeeding and doing nicely in life.”
Abby Ellin, author of the NYT article, is a physician and author of “highly respected” journals who suffered from Anorexia nervosa starting at the age of fifteen. She claims that having this disorder did not stop her from being functional; yet, measuring the seriousness of the disease using functionality is not very effective. Luckily, she was apart of the “one third will recover” group, however what “recovery” is when it comes to being anorectic is controversial.
I found these works helpful in defending my point of view in that young women, you are beautiful no matter what some guy says, what you see on TV, or what anyone has told you. Love yourself for who you are physically, mentally, as well as emotionally. Self-distortion, low self-esteem, and having poor body images is not a way of life.
Savukoski, Marika. "The Other Side of Well-being- What Makes a Young Woman Become Anorectic?" International Journal of Psychology 3.2 (2011). Print.
Ellin, Abby. "With Anorexia, Total Recovery Is Elusive." New York Times. 25 Apr. 2011. Web. 8 Feb. 2012.
I stumbled upon two works discussing the “hush-hush” issue of women battling Anorexia nervosa. “The Other Side of Well-being-What Makes a Young Woman Become Anorectic?” is a scholarly journal discussing research aiming to unfold the factors that cause young women to be come anorectic. Similarly, I found an article on the online source of the New York Times about a personal perspective of anorexia. Because of the first hand experience of anorexia, the author of the NYT article had a more personal tone and rhetoric as compared to the journal with educational and research based text.
The scholarly journal refers to the Western world’s idea of beauty. Everyone wants to look like what they see in magazines and on television, which is a size 0-2 model. Ironically enough, most people are “fatter than ever.” According to Savukoski, author of the journal, the eating disorder the disease became aware to the public in the late 1990s. Savukoski seems to center her research on the idea that the media is to blame for the causation of this disorder. “Media, indeed, maintains the excessive glorification of slimness and the idea of beauty resulting first and foremost from skinny slimness. Slimness seems to guarantee succeeding and doing nicely in life.”
Abby Ellin, author of the NYT article, is a physician and author of “highly respected” journals who suffered from Anorexia nervosa starting at the age of fifteen. She claims that having this disorder did not stop her from being functional; yet, measuring the seriousness of the disease using functionality is not very effective. Luckily, she was apart of the “one third will recover” group, however what “recovery” is when it comes to being anorectic is controversial.
I found these works helpful in defending my point of view in that young women, you are beautiful no matter what some guy says, what you see on TV, or what anyone has told you. Love yourself for who you are physically, mentally, as well as emotionally. Self-distortion, low self-esteem, and having poor body images is not a way of life.
Savukoski, Marika. "The Other Side of Well-being- What Makes a Young Woman Become Anorectic?" International Journal of Psychology 3.2 (2011). Print.
Ellin, Abby. "With Anorexia, Total Recovery Is Elusive." New York Times. 25 Apr. 2011. Web. 8 Feb. 2012.
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