Eating disorders are taking over our counties and effecting numerous lives.
Eating and body image disorders are not only crossing racial and class lines but also becoming a global phenomenon. Susan Bordon explores those lines and just how drastically this issue is sweeping our world in her book “The Globalization of Eating Disorders”.
I will personally explore and share my own life experience’s relating to certain aspects of the book. Such as how society views and stereotypes how they think people who suffer from eating issues should look. Additionally just how much mulita media influence’s this disease substantially. Moreover what we must see in order to change and prevent further damage and much more. I genuinely believe that once others …show more content…
I idolize the artist Pink for her “I don’t care,” attitude and her view on how we all should love ourselves and embrace who we are. Although she is inspiring, it’s easy for her to say those types of things. Pink is blessed with incredible beauty and the perfect amount a curves that I could only dream of acquiring someday. Individually I have no confidence in my own skin and loath my body size. Every time I turn the T.V. on or read I am constantly reminded that my size 15 is not beautiful being it’s not a size 2. This has led me to in the past to starve myself and when that didn’t work I considered even to just end it all, but thankfully that’s behind …show more content…
I have no easy answear. But I do know that we need to acknowledge, finally and decisvely, that we are dealing here with a cultrural problem." (Pg.642) It is not impossable for people who suffer from this rapidly spreading disease to over come it. I have been working on viewing my self in apositive light and taking steps to learn to love myself, along with relising that what we see in the media is not the only beuty. That in fact every one of us is exceptionaly beutiful in our own way and once we start to view our selfs and others this way we can truly extingush the firery growth of body-image disorders. Today I may not be 100% happy with myself but i sure have grown to be comfortable in my skin and look into the mirrior and say wow instead of
Eating and body image disorders are not only crossing racial and class lines but also becoming a global phenomenon. Susan Bordon explores those lines and just how drastically this issue is sweeping our world in her book “The Globalization of Eating Disorders”.
I will personally explore and share my own life experience’s relating to certain aspects of the book. Such as how society views and stereotypes how they think people who suffer from eating issues should look. Additionally just how much mulita media influence’s this disease substantially. Moreover what we must see in order to change and prevent further damage and much more. I genuinely believe that once others …show more content…
I idolize the artist Pink for her “I don’t care,” attitude and her view on how we all should love ourselves and embrace who we are. Although she is inspiring, it’s easy for her to say those types of things. Pink is blessed with incredible beauty and the perfect amount a curves that I could only dream of acquiring someday. Individually I have no confidence in my own skin and loath my body size. Every time I turn the T.V. on or read I am constantly reminded that my size 15 is not beautiful being it’s not a size 2. This has led me to in the past to starve myself and when that didn’t work I considered even to just end it all, but thankfully that’s behind …show more content…
I have no easy answear. But I do know that we need to acknowledge, finally and decisvely, that we are dealing here with a cultrural problem." (Pg.642) It is not impossable for people who suffer from this rapidly spreading disease to over come it. I have been working on viewing my self in apositive light and taking steps to learn to love myself, along with relising that what we see in the media is not the only beuty. That in fact every one of us is exceptionaly beutiful in our own way and once we start to view our selfs and others this way we can truly extingush the firery growth of body-image disorders. Today I may not be 100% happy with myself but i sure have grown to be comfortable in my skin and look into the mirrior and say wow instead of