Women and men want to have the perfect body.
Influence of TV or social environment
But these beauty ideals are unrealistic and unhealthy
Is there a contrast between :
Health ↔ Beauty
Perfection in beauty of the own body can lead to illnesses
Eating disorders
1. Bulimia nervosa: Binge-eating: eat large amount of food and vomit it up afterwards
Leads to many bad consequences
2. Anorexia nervosa: mainly affects girls and young women. They don’t eat anything at all.
Reasons
Cause I unknown
Dissatisfaction with the own body, because of high expectations or pressure by family, job or society
Lot of dieting
For men it’s a more sociological aspect external pressure
For women a more biological aspect intuitively thinking: “ I am too fat!”
Solutions an reaction of the society
1. Therapy: normalizing of eating behavior
2. Campaign against skinny models
Current issues
Germanys next Topmodel or the fashion of the day still have skinny and unhealthy models. That leads to a huge influence by young teenage girls.
