Society
Michelle Luzuriaga
December 2013
Health or beauty ? Which to choose ? For many people this is a everyday question, not in a literal way but in a habit way. Mostly teens, but neverless anybody riskes their lives to fufill this idea of "perfect". Awareness is growing about this deadly disorder but many are still uneducated. This relates to me in a personal matter as well because I have expierenced this myself, first hand. This deadly mental disorder is called an eating disorder. An eating disorder causes drastic emotions, attitude, behaviors that revolve around weight and food issues. There are three main eating disorders, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. Gentic cause or by physcological issues can be the cause to this disorder. It is also life threatning, it is the highest mortality rate of mental illnesses. About 24 million people struggle and almost 50 percent of them meet the criteria of depression. There are many causes, but these are the main causes that have to do with daily interaction we do. For example even with friends, they compare themselves with others that are often praised and complimented or even liked. So they suddenly believe that they will recieve the same treatment and attention if they portray the same image as their friend or peer. Another cause is they feel that will fit in and in some cases the bullying will stop. People can be cruel and make someone uncomfortable with themselves and trigger them to illnesses. Lastly celebrities and the media. They trust that these media icons are the way they seem in real life and don't see the dangerous diets some do, or the amount of photoshopping is done or even the amount of makeup that are being put on them. They do not realize how much work is put and how it's all a huge fraud. Stasticis say that 69% of girls ages 10 to 18 confirm that photographs of models and celebritites in magazines inspired their desired body shape. It is important to me because as I
December 2013
Health or beauty ? Which to choose ? For many people this is a everyday question, not in a literal way but in a habit way. Mostly teens, but neverless anybody riskes their lives to fufill this idea of "perfect". Awareness is growing about this deadly disorder but many are still uneducated. This relates to me in a personal matter as well because I have expierenced this myself, first hand. This deadly mental disorder is called an eating disorder. An eating disorder causes drastic emotions, attitude, behaviors that revolve around weight and food issues. There are three main eating disorders, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. Gentic cause or by physcological issues can be the cause to this disorder. It is also life threatning, it is the highest mortality rate of mental illnesses. About 24 million people struggle and almost 50 percent of them meet the criteria of depression. There are many causes, but these are the main causes that have to do with daily interaction we do. For example even with friends, they compare themselves with others that are often praised and complimented or even liked. So they suddenly believe that they will recieve the same treatment and attention if they portray the same image as their friend or peer. Another cause is they feel that will fit in and in some cases the bullying will stop. People can be cruel and make someone uncomfortable with themselves and trigger them to illnesses. Lastly celebrities and the media. They trust that these media icons are the way they seem in real life and don't see the dangerous diets some do, or the amount of photoshopping is done or even the amount of makeup that are being put on them. They do not realize how much work is put and how it's all a huge fraud. Stasticis say that 69% of girls ages 10 to 18 confirm that photographs of models and celebritites in magazines inspired their desired body shape. It is important to me because as I