Critical Summary Of Cultural Effects On Eating Attitudes In Israeli Subpopulations And Hospitalized Anorectics

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appearance is of extreme importance are more
likely to develop an eating disorder. In the Western world, over the past
two decades eating disorders have increased substantially. People believe
that this increase in eating disorders is due to the fashion industry. The
fashionable female figure of today has become thinner and more tubular
(Szmulker, McCance, McCrone, & Hunter, 1986).
In the world today, Apter believes that thinness is more and more a
symbol of the feminine ideal. He finds that the Western role of a woman is
now beginning to include success in the work force, sexually attractive as
well as the traditional roles as nurturant wives and mothers. Apter
hypothesizes that this added stress of Western ideology combined with the
non-Western ethnic origin of these adolescents could create complications
such that the attitudes towards food will begin to resemble that of
anorectics. In contrast, Apter also hypothesizes that adolescents of non-
Western ethnic origin ...

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