successful and happy, they must be thin. Eating disorders are on the rise. It is not surprising given the value which

society places on being thin. Television and magazine advertising that show the image of glamorous and thin model

Thousands of teenage girls are starving themselves daily in an effort to attain what the fashion industry

considers to be the “ideal” figure. An average female model weighs 23% less than the recommended weight for a

woman. Maintaining a weight 20% below your expected body weight fits the criteria for the emotional eating

disorder known as anorexia .According to medical weight standards, most models fit into the category of being

anorexic. Physicians now believe that anorexia has existed for at least 300 years . It was however only about one

hundred years ago that Professor Ernest Lasegue of the University of Paris finally identified anorexia as an illness .

The term "anorexia nervosa" literally means nervous lose of appetite. Most researchers and physicians

agree that the number of patients with this

Association for Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD) are major organizations in the fight against

dumb girl. This image will prevail even when anorexia has brought a persons weight down to the point were the

of anorexics will either die from complications due to the eating disorder or commit suicide as a result of the

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