Imagine a thirteen-year-old girl who weighs 60
pounds because she is starving herself. Every time
she looks in the mirror, she sees herself as fat.
Picture her parents watching their daughter literally
disintegrating into thin air. This is the life of a family
dealing with an eating disorder. Eating disorders
are a major problem with the young people of
today's society. While anorexia and bulimia are
sociological problems plaguing the world's youth,
there are also other eating disorders. This "fat
phobia", or fear of being over-weight, disturbs
people to the point where they are in a way,
committing suicide.
Eating disorders have been termed the disease
of the 1980's. An eating disorder is defined as "a
dangerous and intense striving to become thin
(Macionis 350). Even though it has been found
that "95% of people who suffer anorexia or
bulimia are woman, mostly from white, relatively
affluent families" (Macionis 350), "the
pre-occupation and obsession with......
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