Critical Summary Of Cultural Effects On Eating Attitudes In Israeli Subpopulations And Hospitalized Anorectics

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of extreme importance are more likely to develop an eating disorder. In the
Western world, over the past two decades eating disorders have increased
substantially. People believe that this increase in eating disorders is due to
the fashion industry. The fashionable female figure of today has become thinner
and more tubular (Szmulker, McCance, McCrone, & Hunter, 1986).
In the world today, Apter believes that thinness is more and more a
symbol of the feminine ideal. He finds that the Western role of a woman is now
beginning to include success in the work force, sexually attractive as well as
the traditional roles as nurturant wives and mothers. Apter hypothesizes that
this added stress of Western ideology combined with the non-Western ethnic
origin of these adolescents could create complications such that the attitudes
towards food will begin to resemble that of anorectics. In contrast, Apter also
hypothesizes that adolescents of non-Western ethnic origin less ...

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