disorders and their causes. Many eating disorders have been proven to emerge

during adolescence and often serve as the foundations to more serious

problems like anorexia and bulimia. This essay will explore the development of

eating disorders in adolescent girls. It will show that these disorders are closely

connected to the biological and psychosocial changes that occur during the

Many teen girls suffer with anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder in which

girls use starvation diets to try to lose weight. They starve themselves down to

skeletal thinness yet still think that they are overweight. Bulimia, meanwhile, is a

disorder in which young women binge on food and then force themselves to

vomit. They also often use laxatives to get food out of their system. All of these

young women who suffer from this problem are considered to suffer from a

psychiatric disorder. While the causes are debatable, one thing that is clear is

that these young women have a distorted body image. (Wolf, pp.214-216)

What is extremely alarming is that the current thin ideal for women in

Western society, which is unattainable for all

Burns, David. Feeling Good. The New Mood Therapy (New York: Avon Books,

In light of all of these factors, it is possible to make some generalizations

dark recesses of the psyche and where many people who are in denial would not

development, and family relationships. The two psychologists examined 193

(13.93 years) and then two years later. They set out to see how much the

entitled "Hunger" in The Beauty Myth, Wolf writes:

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