Fat Phobia

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Date : May 6 , 2010 Fat Phobia

The society that we live in today is composed of people of different ages , nationalities and body sizes , for some reason , the issue of body size is quite sensitive across all nations , majority of people do not like talking about it or even acknowledging that a problem exists , when your body has to be a certain size for you to be considered trendy . The sad fact in this case is that women are more affected

by the negative body images as opposed to men who are not faced with pressure from the society to lose weight and maintain a certain body size . Teenagers and young adults , especially the girls , through the media , are influenced think that for them to be successful , they have to be skinny . These girls therefore result to unorthodox methods in to remain thin and not gain weight

Evolution of the Female Body

According to an article by The Feminist e-Zine-Health , American women are living in a society that is obsessed with being thin . Magazine pages and television screens are filled with images of ultra-thin women , diet and exercise tips . The society moved from full figured female bodies to the thin bodies and this led to an increase in the eating diss bringing forth negative body images . Over the years , there has been an evolution of how an ideal female body should look like . In the 1800s a woman who looked voluptuous and...