Eating Disorders
...why is it that food is now, in our society become somewhat the enemy for so many young women. If we need food to survive how it can be a bad thing to eat, why do so many women have such a hard time eating, one of the big reasons to this could be that our society its self has made young women, and girls think that eating makes you fat and they will be thin and look better if they do not eat.
To some people food is just something that is eaten during the day to keep them going; some people have no problem or issues with food, they can control their portions, what they eat at any given time, and they can say no if they are not hungry. But, there is a large portion of the US that does not have the same control or feelings about food. They feel that food is a controlling factor in their every day life and that it is sort of the forbidden fruit.
I personally can speak from experience, while growing up, and still to this day I have always had a self image that I have to be thin to look good. It was not something that was forced on me by my mother, nor did she or does she make me feel like I am anything but perfect the way I am. I believe that having an eating disorder, in some ways was, and still is my attempt to have some control over my life in a world that is sometimes out of control. Eating is one thing that I have complete control over, when I eat, the quantity, and what I chose to eat is all up to me. I did not realize how common eating disorders were in young women until the last few years, and I have seen one show after another on television about the statistics of eating disorders in today's society. Statistics shows that one percent out of women or girls between the ages of twelve and twenty five years of age suffer from some sort of eating disorder. Even though that may not sound like a lot but if you think of it in terms of numbers, that is over...
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