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Essay on Anorexia Nervosa and the media | ||
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This is the first 1,000 characters of 2335 words (9.34 pages) in the essay titled Anorexia Nervosa and the media A normal female takes a stroll down the streets of Manhattan and ends up at Times Square, probably one of the most colorful places on earth, which also has an abundant number of advertisements. As this female looks up at the pictures, she can see a Calvin Klein ad. The image portrays people who are the idols of our youth; young, thin, beautiful men and women. These young people depict the “ideal” body. As this female walks, she begins to notice her own physical attributes and wonders what it would take for her to look like that Calvin Klein model. Despite the fact that the greatest majority of us could never attain these physiques, many, especially young women, deeply desire to have bodies like these. And many will go to great lengths to attain their goal. This often means stringent, unhealthy diets, laxative abuse, and even forcing themselves to vomit. Although the media’s portrayal of the “perfect body” may not be the soul source of eating disorders, they play a big part.Anorexia nervosa is a disorder of self-starvation, which manifests itself in an extreme aversion to food and can cause psychological, endocrine, and gynecological problems. It almost exclusively affects adolescent white girls, with symptoms involving a refusal to eat, large weight loss, a bizarre preoccupation with food, hyperactivity, a distorted body image and cessation of menstruation. Although the symptoms can be corrected if the patient is treated in time, about 10-15 percent of anorexia ner... |
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Keywords: anorexia nervosa patients, calvin klein model, laxative abuse, gynecological problems, middle class families, model child, unhealthy diets, self starvation, extreme aversion, abundant number, physical attributes, stroll down, beautiful men, soul source, white girls