societies effects on women

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Societies Effect on Women

10/27/2014

Running head: Societies Effect on Women

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Societies Effect on Women

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Eating Disorders and the Role Society Plays

In today's society we are dealt with many stigmas depicting what society views to be the acceptable format for the near perfect woman. This comes with a weight, height, physical body measurement, hair texture and sometimes other various restrictions depending upon whose eyes women are being viewed through.

Most feminine insecurities derive from society's promotion of beauty. Society can and in most cases does play a pivotal role in feminine Anorexia, Bulimia, depression and binge eating. The ways society plays into the aforementioned disorders are via commercials, models, bullying, relationships, and conformity.

Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder which consists of weight obsession, subconscious eating and maintain a weight lower than an average woman their age and height. Due to their psychological outlook on weight people who suffer from Anorexia may starve themselves or exercise excessively.

Anorexia is an unhealthy way to deal with emotional problems set forth by the need to be accepted into the cliché of society.

There are approximately twenty-four million anorexics in the US. The majority prone to such disorders are females. Only ten percent of anorexia patients seek treatment. People with Obsessive Compulsive Disorders, anxiety, and depression are likely to become anorexic. Contributing influences consist of cultural influence, family input, abuse, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Anorexia has the highest death rate than any other mental illness. Five to twenty percent will eventually die,

Due to the fact that most anorexics are adolescent women there is a high risk for bone loss and density. Bone loss can set in within six months. There is also a risk of muscle loss which includes the heart. The heart will grow weaker and smaller...