1. The hurt, the pain, the suffering. Question: Why do women choose bulimia and anorexia? Answer: Fear, shame, and pressure to be thin. Created by: Tanya Bechard Song: 4st 7lb—Manic Street Preachers©

2. http://6keysoptimalhealth.blogspot.com/2007/07/anorexia-is-not-just-for-kids-anymore.html

3. © Copyright Tollie Schmidt Dream-Infused Life 2011. All rights reserved.

4. © 2007-2011 Teen-Beauty-Tips.com All Rights Reserved 50% of girls between the ages of 13 and 15 believe they are overweight

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7. “Cheeks Sunken” “Despair”

8. © 2007-2011 Teen-Beauty-Tips.com All Rights Reserved The death rate associated with anorexia is 12 times higher than the death rate of all causes of death for females 15 –24 years old.

9. © 2010 Kraran..All Rights reserved “See My Third Rib Appear”

10. “A Week Later All My Flesh Disappear” Copyright © 2011 InkinGrey.com

11. IN CANADA: 95% of reported hospitalized cases of anorexia and more than 90% of hospitalized cases of bulimia in Ontario were women (Gucciardi et al., 1995)

12. It’s Your Health Confession

13. Mirror Mirror on the Wall...

14. IS THIS BEAUTY?

15. “I wanna be so skinny that i rot from view”

16. Or This?...

18. What has our society done to women’s image? Their self-esteem? Their sense of beauty?

20. Menal Health Healing 2010

21. In 2005, more than 500,000 Canadians suffered from some sort of eating disorder (Canadian Mental Health Association).

22. Images on T.V. spend countless hours telling us to lose weight, be thin and beautiful because people will like us and we'll be better people for it. Programming on the tube rarely depicts men and women with "average" body-types or crappy clothes, ingraining in the back of all our minds that this is the type of life we want.

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24. One study suggests that unhealthy dieting behaviours are reported in girls as young as 10 years of age (McVey et al., 2004).

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27. Overweight characters are typically portrayed as lazy, the one with no friends, or "the bad guy", while thin women and pumped-up men are the successful, popular, sexy and powerful ones. How can we tell society that it's what's inside that counts, when the media continuously contradicts this message?

28. It’s no wonder women internalize the notion that they need to take up as little space as possible. Consider barbie...

30. Sex Roles (1996) - Springer A standard Barbie doll is 11.5 inches tall, giving a height of 5 feet 9 inches at 1/6 scale. Barbie's vital statistics have been estimated at 36 inches (chest), 18 inches (waist) and 33 inches (hips).

31. According to research by the University Central Hospital in helsinki, Finaland, she would lack the 17 to 22 percent body fat required for a woman to menstruate.

32. Sarah Sink Eames, Barbie Fashion: The complete history of the wardrobes of Barbie doll, her friends and her family, Vol. I, 1959-1967, ISBN 0-89145-418-7ISBN 0-89145-418-7 In 1963, the outfit "Barbie Baby- Sits" came with a book entitled How to Lose Weight which advised: "Don't eat."

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34. Dominelli, 2002 Feminist theory states that the “personal is political” and extends personal problems to larger social structures. It is through systemic ideas of what the female body should look like that can cause women to develop eating disorders. Barbie is not bad, but believing that women need to look like her perpetuates the oppression of women.

35. Young, 2011

36. “Beautiful bodies come in all shapes and sizes, they have lumps, and they have bumps. We get scars along the way, it doesn’t change how beautiful we are, and Mother Nature didn’t make a mistake. We are perfect just the way we are”. -Cheryl Ann Webster