STUTTERING Essay Research Paper American Women Fading

STUTTERING Essay, Research Paper

American Women: Fading Away

American society has a notion that woman must be super skinny. This notion

has caused a rise in eating disorders. The body images are related to the

different levels of self esteem. Poor body image is associated with depression.

Researchers have found that white women have the highest rate of anorexia and

bulimia. Most actresses and models are so skinny; these women are role models

for girls, so these girls want to be skinny. Young girls have a tendency to look

up to famous women as role models. Since women in America have a view that to be

beautiful one must be skeletal, there is a rise in eating disorders, like

anorexia and bulimia because women feel that they are never skinny enough.

Eating disorders are brought on by personality, family pressures, genetic

susceptibility, and culture. One.s negative body image causes that person to

possibly develop an eating disorder. .The term body image refers to the

affective component of body image or the feelings one has about one.s body.

Research on body esteem is important because low body esteem has been associated

with vulnerability to depression, anxiety, and low self esteem, which all

contribute to eating disorders. (Calhoun & Henriques, 357). The most

popular eating disorders are bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa. Bulimia is

more common than anorexia. It is characterized as cycles of bingeing and

purging. It usually begins when young women attempt restrictive diets. After

binges these women purge by vomiting or taking laxatives, diet pills, or drugs

to reduce fluids. Women may attempt severe dieting, which cycles back to

bingeing; otherwise the bulimic becomes anorexic. Eating binges average about

1,000 calories, but intake during a binge can be as high as 20,000 or as low as

100 calories. Bulimic people average about 14 episodes of binge- purging a week.

Bulimic people that do not progress to anorexia have a normal to high- normal

body weight, but it may fluctuate by more than 10 pounds because of the binge-

purge cycle. (Grow, 217).

Anorexia leads to a state of starvation and emaciation, losing at least 15%

to as much as 60% of their normal body weight. Half of these people, known as

anorexia restrictors, reduce weight by severe dieting, the other half, known as

anorexic bulimic, maintain starvation by purging. Although both types are

serious, the bulimic type, which imposes additional stress on an unnourished

body, is the more damaging. (Grow, 217).

It is estimated that 8 million Americans suffer from eating disorders,

approximately 7 million women and 1 million men. Most of these cases begin

before 20 years of age. One study reported that two thirds of high school

students were on diets, although only 20% were actually overweight. 90% of

reported eating disorder cases are in women. Bulimia has increased at a greater

rate than anorexia over the past several years. Some experts claim this problem

is underestimated because many people with bulimia are able to conceal their

purging and do not become noticeably underweight. A report concluded that 80% of

female college students have binged. (Philbin, 23).

Researchers found that white women are more prone to eating disorders. White

women are more concerned about their bodies and eating habits. White women are

more likely to have more restrictive diets and negative body image. White women

are more likely to have a low self esteem, which adds to a low body image. This

may be because most models are white women and other white women want to be like

them. Also much of women.s clothing is made to fit slender women. The fashions

that are in style are usually low cut, short, tight and form fitting. Society

thinks that only slender women can look right in this kind of clothing.

Young girls in the Unites States are being trained by the media, their

families and peers to adopt a negative judgment of their bodies. .Some girls

may be especially accepting of implausible ideals about thinness and/or or may

have personal body- related experiences in early adolescence, including

idiosyncratic response to the developing body within and outside the family,

which leads to extreme body dissatisfaction and vulnerability to depression.(Rierdan

& Koff, 615). They devalue their bodies and believe they most always lose

more weight. They criticize themselves and lose their self esteem. Most young

girls begin worrying about their bodies when they hit puberty. At this time

young girls have an increase of body fat and they realize the culture.s ideal

of thinness. Since teenagers see that overweight teenagers are badgered, they

will do anything they can to never be overweight. A negative body image is

associated with higher levels of depressive symptoms. When many women feel their

lives are out of control, so they use f

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