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             On Monday February 5th I attended a program about eating disorders presented by Laurie Daily. It was a very insightful performance. I have attended many presentation that focus on eating disorders and this was one of the most original one that I have ever been too. .
             Laurie talked about her situation as a female recovering from an eating disorder. She would talk a bit then sing a song, talk some more then sing again. The most shocking thing I thought about the presentation was while she was singing, facts about eating disorders flash on the screen. I was amazed by some of these facts. One in particular would be the one about Fiji. It stated something on the lines of after Fiji started receiving American television there was a huge rise in the amount of eating disorders. Before American broadcasting there were very few and after the number rose significantly. This is amazing to me. Going on this information I would conclude that eating disorders is a socially constructed disease. .
             Many individuals view themselves as not being good enough and causes harm their body to get the illusion that they fit in -Looking Glass Self. A conflict theorist would think that society is set up in a way were individuals feel out of place and will do whatever it takes to attain the goal of being "normal". They get these ideas through symbolic interaction. They were non-deliberately or even maybe deliberately socialized to believe that skinny is good and fat is bad. So to fit in be "good" by being skinny at any cost. Teenage girls look through magazines and see unrealistic pictures of models and think that that is the way they must look. Another fact that was flashed by Laurie was that most models don't even recognize themselves in magazines because so much airbrushing and altering is done. .
             Maybe these are some of the facts that should be in teenage magazines and on television and billboards.


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