Blog 7

An eating disorder is a severe disturbance in eating habits. Fashion and the media as well as diet plans have contributed to the rise in eating disorders because they continue to show very thin women as beautiful. They make the people watching them feel like they are not good enough unless they look like they people in the adds. Then the diet industry feeds on the insecurities of people and when the diet products they advertise do not work the only thing left for some people are eating disorders. I do think that a detailed look at the clinical picture of eating disorders can be used to prevent them; but I think that we must also fix society's view of beauty. I don't think it has become society's sacred ritual. Many in the United States are still overweight and being comfortable in your own skin is slowly becoming the new theme. We are a rich nation with plenty of food and "fast fixes" for weight problems but if we take the focus off of being skinny and back on to being healthy we can fix the problems of society.