Eating Disorder blog eight

Eating disorder is clinically and socially significant. In fact eating disorder such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa is a life threatening event, which individuals starving them selves to death. Action taken by individuals to be bulimics or anorexic exert tremendous pressure to parents and loved ones. Media and western culture, who embrace slim body shape to be fit in society put pressure on young age girls. Different cultures have different perspective about body weight and shape. those culture who have little emphasis on body weight and shape, people do not have eating disorder problem. This seems true in African American culture.
Some study shows different perspective about dissatisfaction of body weight. In the past, people believe that, only young white women were affected by eating disorder. ( 2005 national eating disorder association). Survey conducted by ( kilpatric, Ohannessian, & Bartholomew, 1999) indicate that from 6504 adolescence, Asian, Blacks, Hispanics,and Caucasian youth they attempted to lose weight at similar rate. Why cultures emphasized less about body weight involve with weight dissatisfaction and eating disorder? "It has been hypothesized that as women of colour experience acculturation or assimilation of dominant ideas, they become more susceptible to eating disorder.(2005 NEDA).
eating disorder is a complex issue. Society as whole need to find solution to reduce eating disorder.

refernce
http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/
Seyoum Abebe