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Do you think anorexia and bulimia are encouraged through the portrayal of beauty by media sources? OR Is it more caused by deeper psychological reasons? |
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I do think there is pressure on young girls to lok like the models. Past that, I don't know. I heard recently if you don't eat at all, the desire is gone after 4 days. I am not about to test that theory. |
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I'm not an expert but at a couple points in my life I could very well have had a serious problem. Not eating for me was about control and being perfect. Control because I was in charge about what I ate. I remember making a game of seeing how long I could go without eating. Sometimes I made it to 36 hours and would have kept going except I "felt funny" so I'd eat a little something. I remember standing in front of the bathroom mirror naked, looking at myself and thinking "If I just lost another 5 pounds or so I'd be perfect. I weighed 102 at the time. Scary. Actually I knew better and I scared myself with such wierd thinking. Common sense took over and I started eating again. I gained 20 pounds in about 6 weeks. Now I'm chubby. I like this person better. |
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| | | From: jewel | Sent: 10/15/2008 12:40 AM |
| I think both can contribute to it |
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I believe it is a combination of both, however, I think it is triggered by the media. Let's face it, there are almost no shows on tv where you will find women of normal proportion. They're all ultra-thin. Every magazine you pick up shows us the same slender images. Ever notice the models in catalogues? They're all quite thin also, Obviously, it's a marketing ploy to get us to buy the clothes we're seeing on these thin models. My dd is in her very early 20's and when we go shopping, she always buys large or XL tops, yet she is by no means a chunky girl. The problem is they make the clothes so small, that in order for her to be comfortable and not expose her stomach or breasts, she has to buy bigger sizes. I tried one of her shirts on just as a test and sure enough, it was a comfortable fit for me and I usually wear a small t-shirt. I believe that by making the clothes smaller than their true sizes, this is sending a message to young girls that they need to get thin. How many want to admit that they wear a large or XL? |
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I think the media helps provoke bukimia.A hundred years ago it was fashionable to be a little fat,and no one had bulimia. |
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I think it's hard in school too. The kids tease each other for not "looking" right. As they get older the models are all so skinny. Even the boys want the girls to look like models. |
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about 25 years ago my mom was going thru a difficult time she was ready to retire from the farm and move to town and her husband was not. Well she quit eating we didn't know what to do with her I remember the day she told me what was going down shortly there after the three of us mom her dh and myself got together and really talked about this situation I could not believe that she was not eating this was so strange for me to think my mom was not eating why don't you eat? You got to eat. She had lost enough weight by this time that it was apparent that something drastic had to be done. Her husband was not aware that things had got so far out of hand and back then nobody really knew anything about these matters. I could understand why Don did not want to move to town but mom was definately done with that life style. It was not long after our conversation that the farm was put up for sale and they moved into town. It is very hard to make some body eat if they don't want to or can't. They bought a new house in the town my mom had grown up in and slowly she resummed eating . I don't think she went to the doctor it just seemed so bizzare at the time . I would have to say that I think this condition is a psychological problem and a very serious problem at that . |
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| | | From: lindush | Sent: 10/16/2008 1:58 AM |
It's really a combination of the two, I think. But there have been other times in history when it was enVogue to be fashionably thin- A hundred years ago (give or take) women of means would have their bottom ribs removed to acheive a "wasp waist". Women frequently fainted, unable to breathe properly due to tightly laced corsets to the point that they'd puncture their lungs! Flappers bound their breasts to look more "boyish"- fashionably nubile. Other cultures are equally guilty of distorting the natural form of women. In China, women's feet were bound with their toes tucked under until they were unable to walk on their little ball feet . So, while it's been fashionable to be unnaturally thin at other points in our history- you'd think we'd have learned a little something by now. |
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| | From:  CC20010 | Sent: 10/16/2008 3:28 PM |
I know I learned something! When I was a teen,I got so sick & tired of the fat jokes & comments(& I wasn't even that fat)that I just stopped eating.I learned quick when I was sent to the school nurse because of cramping & almost fainted. These ppl just have to take me the way I am now,like it or not! |
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