Реферат: STUTTERING Essay Research Paper American Women Fading

to as much as 60% of their normal body weight. Half of these people, known as

anorexia restrictors, reduce weight by severe dieting, the other half, known as

anorexic bulimic, maintain starvation by purging. Although both types are

serious, the bulimic type, which imposes additional stress on an unnourished

body, is the more damaging. (Grow, 217).

It is estimated that 8 million Americans suffer from eating disorders,

approximately 7 million women and 1 million men. Most of these cases begin

before 20 years of age. One study reported that two thirds of high school

students were on diets, although only 20% were actually overweight. 90% of

reported eating disorder cases are in women. Bulimia has increased at a greater

rate than anorexia over the past several years. Some experts claim this problem

is underestimated because many people with bulimia are able to conceal their

purging and do not become noticeably underweight. A report concluded that 80% of

female college students have binged. (Philbin, 23).

Researchers found that white women are more prone to eating disorders. White

women are more concerned about their bodies and eating habits. White women are

more likely to have more restrictive diets and negative body image. White women

are more likely to have a low self esteem, which adds to a low body image. This

may be because most models are white women and other white women want to be like

them. Also much of women?s clothing is made to fit slender women. The fashions

that are in style are usually low cut, short, tight and form fitting. Society

thinks that only slender women can look right in this kind of clothing.

Young girls in the Unites States are being trained by the media, their

families and peers to adopt a negative judgment of their bodies. ?Some girls

may be especially accepting of implausible ideals about thinness and/or or may

have personal body- related experiences in early adolescence, including

idiosyncratic response to the developing body within and outside the family,

which leads to extreme body dissatisfaction and vulnerability to depression?(Rierdan

& Koff, 615). They devalue their bodies and believe they most always lose