You are what you eat

Throughout a child’s lifetime, they watch countless hours of television and

movies. The actors and actresses seen on the screen are usually the image of perfection. It

seems that the people who are successful and rich are the men that are chiseled and

muscular and the women who are thin and delicate. This leaves people with the idea that

everyone should look like Hollywood stars. Many people, especially teenagers take these

ideals very seriously. In a survey of 4000 teens, forty-five percent said that they are

unhappy with their bodies, and sixty-five percent said they are obsessed with their bodies.

People go to great lengths to achieve their ideal appearance, even as far as starving

themselves. This is known as Anorexia Nervosa. Eighty-five percent of anorexia occurs

before the age of twenty. Being anorexic consumes your whole life. All you think about

every day is how you look, and what other people think when they look at you. People

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