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Saturday, March 03, 2007

Preventing Eating Disorders

I had said that my next step for my research was to research if illegal drugs influenced on eating disorders. However I realized that knowing what can we do to prevent eating disorders was also a good point for my research, so I went to a google link and research for this topic.

As a society, people can prevent eating disorders by looking always our behaviors and daily attitudes toward things. By this we can understand how to prevent eating disorders in our culture. Teasing and bothering people by weight and body shape leads women to start an eating disorder. Conversations and activities that always include talking and just focusing on thinnes,weight, and dieting may also be harmful and lead to eating disorders.

Movies, magazines and comercial products promote models that are not realistic but jut show and give a message of physical appearance ; beauty and weight. Women are always represented on magazines, movies, and tv by this single women who is unnaturally thin and who’s not like normal women. By seeing this, we have to conclude and realize that we are always going to have different shapes and sizes.

Dieting may also want to push as to change our body to something we are not. Some women have accept that dieting is part of our growth, restricting calories can cause serious psychological consequenses like having inabilities in school, such as tiredness, and depression. In fact girls who constantly diet are most likely to gain weight than those girls who don’t diet.

Accepting this not logical standards to meausure bodies may also create eating disorders behaviors and form low-self esteem. It is always very difficult to fight against this ideas thas form in our heads, but we can always try. People together can defeat this mind-set of ideas that create eating disorders on women if they put effort.

Also, many doctors are working to find out new treatments for eating disorders. The development of promoting awareness of eating disorders in schools as well as having a healthy attitude to our body image and food is one of the things that would help preventing eating disorders. Plus, nacional effort into communities is also helpful because their going to form health centers for those people who have eating disorders and help them by treating them early. By the other hand, health professionals and researchers are always in the constant research of new ways to prevent eating disorders and find new treatments.

I think that preventing eating disorders is something that everyone should do. Though, some people think that they are never getting an eating disorder, is always good that we look at out behaviors and always try fighting against this some mental ideas that form in our minds, that can create us a serious problem; eating disorders. For this, we should always be watching what goes throught our minds.

I also think that it’s very important that people realize and love theirself like they are. You should always feel good and beautiful and can’t be always thinking of how other people are because you want to be that perfect woman with the perfect body and face that it’s not even real. That’s what people want us to think, but in real life their’s always going to be women with defects. This suposely “perfect woman”, who has no defects and its perfect at everything;its unrealistic and we have to understand it, in other to have a happy life.