The Globalization of Eating Disorders.

The Globalization of Eating Disorders
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The Globalization of Eating Disorders
Q. 1.
The factors that lead to body image problem that the young women face today are connected to the fact that the social stereotypes make people seek to attain the body size of models. Social stereotypes regarding gender make young women experience eating disorders since they get too much concerned about achieving the body size of models. Models make young girls to consider no-fat diet while anticipating to change their body figures. The other factor that leads to body image is the fashion industry that keeps on setting the bar for models to only feature the slim and sizable women. The fashion industry results to the constant eating disorders among women as an approach for achieving a given body size (Russel, 2016).
Q. 2.
The comparison that the author makes in paragraph 10 and why it is a valid comparison
The author outlines that even though the articles on eating disorders were continually being published, Asian women were impulsive with the concepts described concerning eating and its connection to body image. The author’s research in Asia portrays that eating disorders in Asia are not well known to be connected to body image stereotypes as outlined in the article. The paragraph describes the rise in childhood obesity and that cultural meaning of fat, and slim people have greatly changed. It is outlived that fat children in China do not face …