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Subject: Body Image vs. Eating Disorders


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Katie Lembra
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Date Posted: 10:43:13 04/16/04 Fri

Body Image vs. Eating Disorders

America is suffering from obesity and eating disorders, two opposite things. Why? If America is “fat” then why are their so many skinny people in TV and magazines? Are the bigger people in America just forgotten or ignored? Or do we see that they are around but ignore them because they aren’t the ideal?
I think that people that are perfectly healthy think that they are fat, because every where they look there are size two women or muscle men on the front of a magazine or staring in a TV show. When people are constantly reminded that don’t have the perfect body, they come up with weird ideas of how they actually look. When they have an unhealthy view of themselves they start trying to “fix” what they see in the mirror by odd eating habits, sometimes falling into depression.
I know this is just a few ideas of what to research but I do think that there is a connection between body image and having eating disorders. Having beautiful faces covering TV and magazines really effects how America views beauty. Who knows how we might see beauty if America would have never fallen into the trap where “sex sells”

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