As soon as a child is born he or she is judged by the way he or she looks. As a child gets older that child is surrounded with pictures and standards and begins to be affected by the way people react to his or her body. It follows to the pre-adolescent and adolescent years. Society’s standards pound on them with TV, Magazines, movies and billboards on how they should look and what the “perfect body” is supposed to look like. Advertisers often emphasize sexuality and the importance of physical attractiveness in an attempt to sell products. Consequently men, women and children will do anything to achieve society’s “perfect person.” Thanks to society’s constant pressure, men and women of all ages have answered in an extreme way. In the United States, as many as 10 million females and 1 million males are fighting a life and death battle with an eating disorder.
Here are some of http://www.state.sc.us/ statistics:
~It is estimated that 8 million Americans have an eating disorder – seven million women and one million men
~One in 200 American women suffers from anorexia
~Two to three in 100 American women suffers from bulimia
~Nearly half of all Americans personally know someone with an eating disorder
~Eating disorders have the HIGHEST mortality rate of any mental illness
~About 80% of the girls/women who have accessed care for their eating disorders do not get the intensity of treatment they need to stay in recovery. And only 1 in 10 people will receive treatment.
Our nation is so ignorant to the seriousness that media has on Americans,esp young girls and teens health. I really feel there is a NEED for people be made aware of this severe condition.
The media every day is pounding this idea that to be worth something you have to be thin and pretty and character and morals of a person don't really mean anything. Now what on earth is that telling society of how to view people, How is that telling men to view women. As Objects. Societies view is only one of the negatives, all I can seem to think about is how is this affecting Teens minds? With all the pressures teens already face and THEN having to face the ideal of social acceptance by looks...I myself as a teen in high school struggled with an eating disorder and the harshness of it is that its not just girls feeling I'm fat or I need attention. That is not it at all, eating disorders really are a mental, physical, and emotional condition.
After all this pressure women therefor in our culture strive to make their bodies and appearance desirable at any cost. Here is a link to a website that talks more about medias effect on body image. Victims of eating disorders need those around them to support and help, my question is how do we start about doing that? How do you raise awareness? and when will the media realize the crazy damage their doing so societies young women and teens body image and self worth? A positive body image will give an individual a better life free from depression and low self esteem, and that really isn't easy to come by with all of the societal pressures...
Here are some of http://www.state.sc.us/ statistics:
~It is estimated that 8 million Americans have an eating disorder – seven million women and one million men
~One in 200 American women suffers from anorexia
~Two to three in 100 American women suffers from bulimia
~Nearly half of all Americans personally know someone with an eating disorder
~Eating disorders have the HIGHEST mortality rate of any mental illness
~About 80% of the girls/women who have accessed care for their eating disorders do not get the intensity of treatment they need to stay in recovery. And only 1 in 10 people will receive treatment.
Our nation is so ignorant to the seriousness that media has on Americans,esp young girls and teens health. I really feel there is a NEED for people be made aware of this severe condition.
The media every day is pounding this idea that to be worth something you have to be thin and pretty and character and morals of a person don't really mean anything. Now what on earth is that telling society of how to view people, How is that telling men to view women. As Objects. Societies view is only one of the negatives, all I can seem to think about is how is this affecting Teens minds? With all the pressures teens already face and THEN having to face the ideal of social acceptance by looks...I myself as a teen in high school struggled with an eating disorder and the harshness of it is that its not just girls feeling I'm fat or I need attention. That is not it at all, eating disorders really are a mental, physical, and emotional condition.
After all this pressure women therefor in our culture strive to make their bodies and appearance desirable at any cost. Here is a link to a website that talks more about medias effect on body image. Victims of eating disorders need those around them to support and help, my question is how do we start about doing that? How do you raise awareness? and when will the media realize the crazy damage their doing so societies young women and teens body image and self worth? A positive body image will give an individual a better life free from depression and low self esteem, and that really isn't easy to come by with all of the societal pressures...
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