Society’s Impact on Eating Disorders Victoria Friedrich Orcutt Academy High School Frosh Core

Eating Disorders are a real problem in life and people should be highly aware of them.

Eating Disorders Millions of people all over the world have eating disorders. Eating disorders frequently appear during the teen years or young adulthood but may also develop during childhood or later in life.

Thesis Even though magazines make more money by photo shopping models bodies, society should have a more realistic view on body image because models have a unrealistic body image, yet that is what society calls beautiful and society makes people think low of themselves and make them diet.

Magazine Effect Magazines have a bad effect on eating disorders. When teens pick up a magazine and see on the cover “a perfect body”, they thrive to have that body. Most magazine photos are airbrushed or photo shopped. They do not present the models actual body, making them skinnier and have the “perfect body”

Magazines 47% of girls in 5th-12th grade reported wanting to lose weight because of magazine pictures. 69% of girls in 5th-12th grade reported that magazine pictures influenced their idea of a perfect body shape.

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Class Survey Results It is clear that the majority of the class voted anorexia as the most dangerous eating disorder.

Society’s Effect 42% of 1st-3rd grade girls want to be thinner. 81% of 10 year olds are afraid of being fat. In the United States, 20 million women and 10 million men suffer from a clinically significant eating disorder at some time in their life, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, or an eating disorder not otherwise specified.

Society 81% of 10 year olds are afraid of being fat. 42% of 1st-3rd grade girls want to be thinner. Unlike girls with eating disorders, who mostly want to lose weight, some boys with muscle dysmorphia see themselves as smaller than they really are and want to gain weight or bulk up. Eating disorders frequently appear during the teen years or young adulthood but may also develop during childhood or later in life.

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Class Survey Results As you can see the majority of the class believe society has impacted eating disorders. A few people said they believe it has only a little. Barely anyone believes society has not impacted eating disorders.

Effect Society has impacted people all over the world to start eating disorders. They change the models bodies on magazine covers. Models are super skinny already and adding effects make them worse. Society tells us to be ourselves but then they judge you. Society is one of the main reasons millions of people all over the world have an eating disorder.

You Are Beautiful Nobody should worry about what society thinks. Everyone is beautiful in any shape or size. Society doesn’t tell you who to be or what to look like, you do. Start listening to yourself instead of listening to society.

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