Anorexia Must Stop Now!
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Anorexia nervosa is when someone loses their appetite to eat. It affects a person both physically and mentally. Physically people become extremely skinny and almost look distorted. Mentally people develop a fear of weight gain. People who are anorexic like to excessively exercise, keep an eye out for low fat and low calorie foods and drinks, and have a social and emotional withdrawal.
Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder in which you develop a fear of weight gain, form a distorted body figure, yellowing of the skin, hair on your face, slow thinking, poor memory, depression, dry mouth, become very sensitive to cold weather, and you lose your bone strength.
Anorexia Nervosa traces back to the 12th and 13th century because starving yourself was part of religion especially in Western Christianity. Women who starved themselves were greatly appreciated they were also called miracle maidens . They were so honored because it showed that they had control over their body, staying away from food meant staying away from sins, which meant to bamboozle God. Although in the sixteenth century women who were anorexic were viewed as witches.
I would like to stop anorexia from happening. Although it’s people’s choice to be become anorexic they have influences. The image that models, actors, actresses, singers, and even more groups have very skinny body images that people think are perfect. People then want to follow their footsteps and go on strict eating diets that then can form into anorexia. Since so many young people that are influenced watch the television there should be commercials to promote self esteem. Usually people that become anorexic have low self esteem. There should be more advertisements because not very many companies have been promoting this serious issue. The advertisements will not only be helpful to prevent anorexia it would prevent even bigger issues such as suicide. There needs to be an end to a “perfect” body because everyone is different and they look fantastic the way they are. People are dangerously changing themselves like becoming anorexic just to be skinny. There needs to be a change soon.
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