A Starving Society

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This paper claims that eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any psychological disease and the numbers are continuing to rise. The paper quips that the media is taking calories out of the mouths of modern women and telling them they have to be skinny to be anyone. The paper states with bittersweet humor that popular culture is killing America but if we're going to be six feet under, we're going to be a perfect ten!

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"The desire to be thin is starting at a younger and younger age. In a document by Frances M. Berg, he states that, "At a young age, typically toddlers are watching television and starting their daily exposure to the message that shows successful women are thin. From these moments on throughout life this child will hear sounds that objectify, distrust and battle their bodies in order to make them acceptably thin (Berg 45)." Around the world ninety percent of toddler age girls have a Barbie doll. Barbie is a role model with a body that is unattainable in life for all women. If Barbie were scaled to life size with a height of 5'6" her measurements would be 39" bust -23" waist -33" hips (www.firstscience.com). With breasts that large and a waist that small she would need a permanent pelvic/lower back brace to hold herself upright, but this isn't what children see. They just see that she is beautiful and successful and can do anything. "

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