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You are what you eat
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Throughout a child’s lifetime, they watch countless hours of television and movies. The actors and actresses seen on the screen are usually the image of perfection. It seems that the people who are successful and rich are the men that are chiseled and muscular and the women who are thin and delicate. This leaves people with the idea that everyone should look like Hollywood stars. Many people, especially teenagers take these ideals very seriously. In a survey of 4000 teens, forty-five percent said that they are unhappy with their bodies, and sixty-five percent said they are obsessed with their bodies. People go to great lengths to achieve their ideal appearance, even as far as starving themselves. This is known as Anorexia Nervosa. Eighty-five percent of anorexia occurs before the age of twenty. Being anorexic consumes your whole life. All you think about every day is how you look, and what other people think when they look at you. People with eating disorders misuse food to satisfy both emotional and physical needs. Sometimes when a person’s life spins out of control, they feel the only thing they can control is the food they consume. Anorexics often drop to eight-five percent below their ideal body weight and still view themselves and overweight.
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