Anorexia

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adolescence when girls, typically experience a �fat spurt� in which they gain about twenty to twenty five pounds. Although this pattern is normal many girls see themselves as overweight and begin to diet. Cultural influences plays a role in leading the female to think that her body is fat (Kail 282). The way our society manipulates women to have an ideal figure in there minds is astonishing.
A great example of how simple it was for people watching just television to get the disorder: in 1995 satellite TV began beaming Western shows and fashions to remote parts of the Fiji Islands in the South Pacific. Just a few years later, research found that Fijian teenage girls, who watched television at least three nights per week, were more likely then others to feel �too big or fat.� In addition, almost two-thirds of them had dieted in the previous month, and fifteen percent had strictly starved them selves to control their weight, and fit the size and weight of the actors and models on ...

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of women met the criteria�s for anorexia, while only .25 percent of males met ant criteria�s of the disorder (Davis 371). Because thinness is especially valued in the subcultures of fashion models, singers, actors, dancers and certain athletes they are also victims as well as young females of anorexia.
The current Western standards of females� attractiveness have contributed to increase in anorexia. These standards have changed throughout history; with a noticeable shift forward preference for a thin female frame has been steady since the 1950s. The study of the Miss America Pageant shows from 1961 through 1990 found an average decline of 0.28 pounds per year among the contestants and ...

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