Tate Ford Ford 1
11/30/06
First Aid & Safety
Anorexia Nervosa
Many people in today's society including men not just women often dream about having the perfect body. Some may work hard for it and others may think they cannot achieve that dream. In our social order, we seem to make body image appear to be almost one of the most important things. Young girls less than thirteen years of age can start to see themselves as being "fat" even if they are thin. In fashion magazines for instance, you will hardly ever see pictures of overweight or slightly overweight people.
Anorexia is an eating disorder that usually strikes women between the ages of fifteen and thirty-five. An estimated one thousand females will die each year from anorexia. About eighty percent of females suffer from a sub clinical eating disorder and twenty percent will turn into full-blown anorexics in......
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