Friday, May 9, 2008

Eating disorders

What is the main topic that is on peoples mind today? When we look at the media we can see that a lot of it has to do with eating disorders. In the media, we see the picture perfect person that we are all suppose to look like. Many wonder if that is whom we are supposed to be.

In today’s society, we see models that are suppose to set the standards for everyone. They show you the perfect body shape to your hair style. These are supposedly what we are to look like. You can see that not what everyone looks like this.

From this media, it makes ones feel as if they are not good enough as they are. We can see what results from this. Many then feel depression, and obtain eating disorders. Ones have become anorexic and also have gone the other way and ate their feelings.

If the media became aware of the way they sell their product, there might be a minimizing of the problem. They could do this by using children and healthy people instead of a skinny model that is size zero and makes people feel bad. We can see being healthy does not being a small size but to be in a good physical shape for you.

So we can see that if we are trying to be in a good physical condition we are more likely to not have these problems. One could also look at what they need to be healthy instead of obsessing over what others look like. We then can minimize the problem of eating disorders.

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