Causation factors are also researched on society's everyday norm of dieting and over-consumption of readily available food. ... Society creates a glamorized perception of ideal body types that symbolically relate to success and power through mass media. This creates an emphasized thin body type along with everyday dieting norms that would be embraced by majority of society. Obsessive dieting and yearning to match the ideal body type leads to abnormal eating habits and eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa among vulnerable personality types as well as young adoles...

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Apparently, due to the rising global concerns on health issues that often arise as a result of choice of poor type of food consumed, organic and fresh vegetable and fruit juices would be one of the most sought after type of food (Sahidi, 202-203). ... Certainly drinking green juices is not an American norm, but according to Nanda and Warms (39) human behavior is not always consistent with cultural norms or values. ...

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Advanced Strategies Rhetoric and Research How the Media Causes Eating Disorders Among Women It is an elementary notion that we live in society that is undeniably marked by cultural norms and ideas. ... The fashion industry's perpetual fixation on glamorizing thin women makes women who do not fit the normal body type feel insecure about themselves. ... Though only 25 percent were actually overweight according to weight norms, 75 percent believed that they were fat, with 18 percent using laxatives or diuretics to control their weight (Hanson137). ... Women look at celebrities to emul...

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The media, such as televisions, internet, and magazines, needs to realize that the advertisements they put out can cause people to develop an eating disorder and we, as buyers, need to take a stand against these types of false advertisements. ...

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During this time, they absorb how peers and celebrities act and look, which cause them to want to blend into the norm. ... ( ) There are many different types of magazines, ranging from fitness, tabloids, and fashion that expose many types of ideas and pictures to readers. ...

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Thin, almost sickly looking models are hailed to be the ideal body type, making many women feel overweight. ... Once again, it is a case of the media driving women to unhealthy behaviors in an attempt to meet the cultural "norm." ... There are two types of diet pills; appetite suppressant and fat-blocker (Best and Safest Diet Pills). ...

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(Hittner 1997) It is also important for children, at an early age, to develop sources of self-esteem that are based on qualities other than physical appearance and for parents and teachers to promote acceptance of the natural diversity of body types. ... Body image dissatisfaction has become a cultural norm for girls and women. Food advertisements create and reflect this norm by depicting women as obsessed and dissatisfied with their body weight, size, and shape. ...

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With these causes in mind, it is also important to consider factors such as socioeconomic status, social development, poverty, cultural norms, political instability, and war, which can all contribute largely to the rate of malnutrition in a country. ... When there was a rapid decrease in the consumption of quinoa amongst the native Bolivian people, experts started to notice a drastic difference in eating habits, and based on the types of food the natives were now consuming, they could conclude the new diet was a factor in the development of malnutrition. ...

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In another study in the Public Health Reports (2011) there was an examination of between the proportion of people in a county living at/below 130% of the federal poverty and three types of restaurants (fast food, chain full service and independent full service) and the link it had to the Body Mass Index (BMI) in those individuals. ... There is a reliance on automobiles to get to one destination to another and making it the norm for even small distances. ...

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