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A Certain Hunger

In the essay "", by Maggie Helwig it shows how people can develop a negative body image about themselves because of the way society praise and glorifies models and "thin" celebrities. People would be more secure about themselves, if everyone would accept people as they are, and help the people who have these image problems before they lose control, lose self-
confidence and lose hope in themselves.
Anorexia nervosa and bulimia are unexplainable and illogical conditions that affects the mind. People become so caught up in their looks that they do not even see the harm they are doing to their bodies. Although these behaviours seems irrational, to people who have never had to deal ...

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too thin, though, it is not simply enough to tell her that she needs to eat, she knows that she is getting to thin, but she has starved her body for so long that her brain is telling her that she does not want to eat and that food isn't good for her.

In this day and age when no one in Canada should go hungry, let alone purposely starve herself, society is totally to blame. Models and celebrities are put on pedestals because of their looks. That is where mixed up conceptions about oneself are formed. Almost every magazine cover and fashion page presents skinny women showing off their bodies. For some unknown reason society has accepted theses skinny models as normal and as having the perfect figures. Now, it is becoming more acceptable not to be wearing a size three, but to be happy about the way one looks. However it will still be a long time before diets die out and people are comfortable wearing bathing suits to the beach.

In the past, society ...

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Added: 6/8/2005 08:36:19 PM
Category: English
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