Drivin to be Thin

Throughout the years, eating disorders have been on the rise. In a society that prizes thinness, anorexics and bulimics are often just one who looks good in clothes, hiding themselves from their real problem. Before 1995, bigger was better, and if you were trying to lose weight, people worried. “Back then big was beautiful and bigger was more beautiful...Everyone worried about losing weight but not the way they are now” (Goodman 79). Young girls and women strive to look like the models they see in magazines, and unrealistic body images promote dangerous eating disorders; therefore, photographers and magazine editors should not be able to photoshop pictures of women.
To start out, anorexia nervosa is one of the two most common eating disorders. Anorexia is a disorder that makes one scared to gain weight, therefore, they starve themselves and go to an extreme with dieting and exercising. In fact, they are almost always hungry and thinking about food, even as the disorder impels them to deny their bodies the fuel needed to function properly. (Walsh, Cameron 62,63) It starts out as a diet, but because they have a fear of gaining weight the diet can spiral out of control. They may be bone thin but they can continue to eliminate more and more food, over time or they will eat very little or nothing at all. (Fanning n. pag.)
In addition, bulimia is the second most common. Bulimia is a disorder in which one will eat an excessive amount of food, and then to get rid of the calories they purge or use laxatives to prevent weight gain. Even though both eating disorders are harmful, doctors say bulimia is the more dangerous one because it is not as noticeable. (Klein 27, 28) Bulimics often try to have their weight at an unhealthy number, because their mind is telling them they are fat, when they are not even close.
Some health effects of anorexia and