Реферат: STUTTERING Essay Research Paper American Women Fading

STUTTERING Essay, Research Paper

American Women: Fading Away

American society has a notion that woman must be super skinny. This notion

has caused a rise in eating disorders. The body images are related to the

different levels of self esteem. Poor body image is associated with depression.

Researchers have found that white women have the highest rate of anorexia and

bulimia. Most actresses and models are so skinny; these women are role models

for girls, so these girls want to be skinny. Young girls have a tendency to look

up to famous women as role models. Since women in America have a view that to be

beautiful one must be skeletal, there is a rise in eating disorders, like

anorexia and bulimia because women feel that they are never skinny enough.

Eating disorders are brought on by personality, family pressures, genetic

susceptibility, and culture. One?s negative body image causes that person to

possibly develop an eating disorder. ?The term body image refers to the

affective component of body image or the feelings one has about one?s body.

Research on body esteem is important because low body esteem has been associated

with vulnerability to depression, anxiety, and low self esteem, which all

contribute to eating disorders? (Calhoun & Henriques, 357). The most

popular eating disorders are bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa. Bulimia is

more common than anorexia. It is characterized as cycles of bingeing and

purging. It usually begins when young women attempt restrictive diets. After

binges these women purge by vomiting or taking laxatives, diet pills, or drugs

to reduce fluids. Women may attempt severe dieting, which cycles back to

bingeing; otherwise the bulimic becomes anorexic. Eating binges average about

1,000 calories, but intake during a binge can be as high as 20,000 or as low as

100 calories. Bulimic people average about 14 episodes of binge- purging a week.

Bulimic people that do not progress to anorexia have a normal to high- normal

body weight, but it may fluctuate by more than 10 pounds because of the binge-

purge cycle. (Grow, 217).

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