Saturday, October 31, 2009

Why is it mostly women and girls who suffer from eating disorders?

Maybe a bit of a stupid question, but is there any research about this or anything?
Answer:
Look at any magazine for women full of stick thin models and skinny vile creatures like victoria beckham. On one page they ahev oh big is beautiful the next how to lost weight while modelling clothes on women who eat dust!! its distgusting and horrible and eating disorders are horrible for the sufferer believe me I know!!! one comment once that I looked like a fat Kate Moss has resulted in 14 years of an eating disorder
Is it that women and girls are more likely to come forwards? Or the media hype on women to look good is far stronger than that on men!!
Because men aren't so vain.
Women tend to overanalyze their own bodies. They see the details, where men tend to see a bigger picture. And, there is more pressure from society on women to be perfect, skinny, model-y type people.
I think it is to do with the media's constant projection of what they think our shape should be. Size zero or ten is usually what is imprinted into our thoughts. Not many magazines use larger sized models. When did you last see the latest Hollywood hunk parade with a real sized wench? Eating disorders can be for some people a way of taking control of their lives. An area in which they think they have total control over what happens to them.
I think men are probably starting to catch up, but are less likely to admit it for fear of being ridiculed.
I think that part of it has to be that certainly in the past there has been more social pressure in western society for women in particular to be thin. The reason for this particular image of beauty being desirable in our culture probably has something to do with it being a very unthreatening look. To be thin and waif like, does not put forth an image of strength or an image of a challenging person. Some of it is also probably that it is an unattainable look for normal healthy people which is why the beauty industry sells it as desirable. If it was easy to attain after all you would not need to buy products to attain it and companies would not make any money. So they peddle this image because it makes them money.Men have traditionally not been included as a target market for such products but now having conquored and brainwashed women and young girls the market has begun to spread to men it increase profits. These companies prey in a very insideous way on people's insecurities and they do it for the most immoral of reasons- to make money. There is nothing wrong with a capitalist venture but when you put profit ahead of the mental and physical well-being of your target market then there is something very very wrong at work.Take the slogun "because you're worth it" just as an example.What does this mean? "if I don't buy this product- am I not worth it?"The language that is used and the images that are flashed are generally targetted at women, and they prey very directly upon female insecurities and even aim to create ones where they did not previously exisit.This is why women are more likely to fall foul of eating disorders than men, though give it time.and I'm sure men will begin to be suckered into it too.S
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I think woman seek help and admit they need help . I reckon there are lots of men out there with these problems too but are not geared to admit they need help - men seem to have difficulty asking for help .
I think there is a lot more media pressure and peer pressure for females. There are lots of survey reports completed yearly by universities and colleges in an effort to find out the reasons why it affects some groups more than others. have a look at google and type in eating disorder surveys. That Will tell you a lot more than I can type here.
It depends on who you talk to...this artical talks about some of the studies done.http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:ktq...
no eating disorders are most common in teenage boys and young adult males, they just go unnoticed as the stereo type is for a girl to have an eating disorder..its been found that more males have them than females

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