Adolescent Eating Disorders

I was recently watching a commercial for Dove. The commercial was a young girl that was having all these visions of thin, blond and beautiful people. These thoughts and ideas that are put into young girls minds are happening at a younger and younger age. On television, in movies, on the Internet and in magazines the female is this creature that barely no one actually is. These women and characters are not only making teens and women feel as though they must be that person that is so skinny, tall, blond and beautiful but now we are facing the same challenges with eating disorders in girls starting at the age of five and six. USA today recently did a study on this topic and found that over 10 million girls have an eating disorder, which is about 10 percent of all American children. Instead of playing outside, riding their bike, at the dance studio or doing homework, these girls are more concerned with what they put in their mouth and how they are going to get to look like that supermodel they keep seeing on television and on the front pages of magazines.

Feel free to read on at: www.usatoday.com/news/health/child/2001-12-13-eating-disorders.htm