Eating Disorder

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is compounding this problem. It is a very serious issue when
someone's body shape is determined by genetic disposition and yet they try to
alter it to fit some kind of imaginary ideal of how a person should look.
Thus, one of the most serious problems is that female nature is not what
society says it should be. Some researchers theorize that anorexia is a young
woman's way of canceling puberty. Since they lack body fat, anorexics don't get
their periods and often lose their sexual characteristics such as public hair. They
remain, in other words, little girls. There is also the complex issue of women
feeling that by having an eating disorder they are finally in control of something
in their life. This may sound strange, but much research has shown that women
who have been abused or neglected in their childhoods develop these problems
of control. (Attie and Brooks-Gun, pp.70-71).
Studies suggest that eating disorders often begin in early to
mid-adolescence. They are ...

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cohesive personality structure play profound roles
in this process. Psychologists Ilana Attie and J. Brooks-Gun have done some
work on this issue. They considered eating disorders within the so-called
"developmental" perspective, which examines the emergence of eating disorders
in adolescent girls as a function of pubertal growth, body image, personality
development, and family relationships. The two psychologists examined 193
white females and their mothers during the former's middle-schooled years
(13.93 years) and then two years later. They set out to see how much the
development of eating problems represented a mode of accommodation to
pubertal change. Taking a "developmental" ...

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