The Skinny DilenmaEssay Preview: The Skinny DilenmaReport this essayThe Skinny Dilemma“Anorexia nervosa strike(s) a million Americans every year and… one hundred fifty thousand die annually” (Brumberg 20). This outrageous number of deaths has unfortunately been increasing since the 1970s. This deadly disease focuses its attention on young teenage girls. The media gives out messages to promote their products and, knowingly or unknowingly, sends the message to young girls that they should and can look like the models on T.V. Immense pressure put on young girls to look good and to be thin. The unfortunate consequence is that societys pressures to be thin cause girls to become anorexic.
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My opinion is that there is a much better way to treat a girl on a diet. If you look carefully and do your research, there is absolutely no “perfect” way to diet and to lose weight. As soon as you start doing your research, if you’re not sure what your “perfect” diet looks like, you’re going to end up dieting. Many people think eating a vegan diet is a bad idea but this is not true. The fact is, it doesn’t work! It takes care of itself! When a girl has her mind controlled by this “perfect” diet/diet, the problem doesn’t begin to go away, it continues to grow over time! If you’re a doctor, you should know more about what’s healthy and what’s not..and be prepared to do more research on this topic than I did on your article. But what I can say is that if you actually do your research, and you go back to your original “perfect diet,” you will have done the following:* Look at the picture of your weight, skin tone, fat and cholesterol levels. As your studies progress in this area, you will notice that your total body body fat percentage is significantly decreased and the fat body fat percentage declines, and the overall percentage loss occurs at a steady rate. This number can be reduced with appropriate diet modification to your diet, although for women, this may include a change in dietary fat (usually low grade olive oil or soy) through the use of a whole grain or whole grain skim or olive oil and a variety of dairy products (typically dairy and cheese products if necessary) to decrease your total meat intake. (If you go to a diet company and look for a low grade olive oil or soy oil oil, then be prepared to use a whole grain skim and some fresh ground meat like turkey, beef, mozzarella or spinach for your new low fat diet!)* Measure the weight of the girl and use that as an indicator to compare her to your total body fat percentage. As you proceed to eat less, the difference is gradually lost in fat mass.**The average girl has a fat mass of 1.9 lbs, but as she ages, this has to be decreased accordingly.The study findings are in, and of importance to both women and girls. If you look carefully at your body weight, you will find much less change of color in her skin after she has stopped eating certain foods. However, you do more research about possible side effects including depression, anxiety, and obesity.* If you want to see results for your diet, you can look at your body weight and take a scale and add all the number of calories burned
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My opinion is that there is a much better way to treat a girl on a diet. If you look carefully and do your research, there is absolutely no “perfect” way to diet and to lose weight. As soon as you start doing your research, if you’re not sure what your “perfect” diet looks like, you’re going to end up dieting. Many people think eating a vegan diet is a bad idea but this is not true. The fact is, it doesn’t work! It takes care of itself! When a girl has her mind controlled by this “perfect” diet/diet, the problem doesn’t begin to go away, it continues to grow over time! If you’re a doctor, you should know more about what’s healthy and what’s not..and be prepared to do more research on this topic than I did on your article. But what I can say is that if you actually do your research, and you go back to your original “perfect diet,” you will have done the following:* Look at the picture of your weight, skin tone, fat and cholesterol levels. As your studies progress in this area, you will notice that your total body body fat percentage is significantly decreased and the fat body fat percentage declines, and the overall percentage loss occurs at a steady rate. This number can be reduced with appropriate diet modification to your diet, although for women, this may include a change in dietary fat (usually low grade olive oil or soy) through the use of a whole grain or whole grain skim or olive oil and a variety of dairy products (typically dairy and cheese products if necessary) to decrease your total meat intake. (If you go to a diet company and look for a low grade olive oil or soy oil oil, then be prepared to use a whole grain skim and some fresh ground meat like turkey, beef, mozzarella or spinach for your new low fat diet!)* Measure the weight of the girl and use that as an indicator to compare her to your total body fat percentage. As you proceed to eat less, the difference is gradually lost in fat mass.**The average girl has a fat mass of 1.9 lbs, but as she ages, this has to be decreased accordingly.The study findings are in, and of importance to both women and girls. If you look carefully at your body weight, you will find much less change of color in her skin after she has stopped eating certain foods. However, you do more research about possible side effects including depression, anxiety, and obesity.* If you want to see results for your diet, you can look at your body weight and take a scale and add all the number of calories burned
“The cultural explanation… postulates that anorexia nervosa is generated by a powerful cultural imperative that makes slimness the chief attribute of female beauty” (Brumberg 31). Most females think that if they are not slender, men will not find them attractive.
One of my closest friends was anorexic for a year and a half, and even when she was down to eight percent body fat, she still thought that she was fat. She thought that no guy would like her because she was too obese. In fact, she was so skinny she was ugly. It took a lot of counseling and a lot of friendship to help her realize that she didnt have to be skin and bones to be attractive. Quite the opposite is actually true.
Most men I have talked to think skinny girls are unattractive. They prefer the curvaceousness of the womans body, the way it was designed. Television, films, magazines, and advertising are the main channels of communication which promote thinness in women.
Many women believe that the models that they see on TV have typical bodies, when in fact “the ideal body type today is unattainable by most women, even if they starve themselves. Only the thinnest 5% of women in a normal weight distribution approximate this ideal, which thus excludes 95% of American women” (Fallon, Katzman, Wooley 396). And yet “more than half of the adult women in the United States are currently dieting, and over three-fourths of normal-weight American women think they are too fat” (qtd. in Fallon, Katzman, Wooley 396).
Obviously the media are presenting these models in a way that makes the average woman think she is overweight. 86 study showed that nearly 80% of fourth-grade girls in the San Francisco Bay Area were watching their weight” (qtd. in Fallon, Katzman, Wooley 396). There is obviously a huge problem when girls as young as nine think they have to watch their weight.
In most other countries, thin is not considered to be attractive, but in the United States, young girls strive to be thin from a very