Eating Disorders

This past week was eating disorder awareness week.  I believe this is extremely important to have on college campuses.  Some people don’t believe that an eating disorder is a disease, but in fact, it is an extremely serious one.  I have done numerous papers and countless hours of research on eating disorders.  For many papers in high school and my freshman year at OU I researched the media and the impact it has on girls and the way they view themselves.  Not only girls, but women also are starving themselves because they think they are fat.  But in reality they are not fat.

This week we had guest speakers talk about the 2 different types of eating disorders.  They are bulimia and anorexia.  Thousands of girls in the United States today suffer from one of these deadly diseases.  In my opinion girls suffer from these diseases because of how the media portrays “normal” girls.  Today models are size zero or two.  Models back in the day were size six to eight.  One of the most beautiful ladies in the entire world, Marilyn Monroe, was a size ten or larger.  I think it is absolutely ridiculous that the media is portraying women to be so skinny.  The media is killing our youth.  One of the guest speakers said that girls as young as 9 are suffering from one of these diseases because they want to look like Mary-Kate or Lindsey.

Eating disorders are extremely dangerous.  I have vowed to myself that no matter how “fat”  I think I look that I will never ever fall into the trap of one of these deadly diseases!