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Eating Disorders: Who is to be held responsible?

Abstract

Only a thin line separates “normal� dieting from an eating disorder. (Hesse-Biber, 1996) Unfortunately for young women in this day and age, social and economic factors pressure them to pursue the thinness ideal, even to the point of dangerous behavior. At one point in time, dieting would have been considered one of the ways to improve one’s health. Today’s society has been brainwashed to believe that in order to be healthy, one has to be painfully thin. This ideology has caused 7 million girls’ lives to be affected with eating disorders (Mooney, Knox, and Schacht, 2006).

Discussion

Defining Eating Disorders

“A man cannot be too serious about his eating, for food is the force that binds society together.� What Confucius could never have fathomed was that approximately 2500 years after his death, food would actually be the force that disrupts society beyond repair. Who would have ever thought that a......

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