Because of your desire to reach perfection, most of you girls could be closer to death. It might sound harsh, but it is the plain truth.

What is anorexia?

Anorexic persons don`t want to loose weight, they want to get rid of the last drop of fat that hampers them to show their bones. They won`t succeed until every bone sticks out. The best motto for anorexic persons would be " I love you to the bones !".

Anorexia means lost of appetite, I won`t discuss about this, I will speak about anorexia nervosa, a mental illness showed by loss of weight obsession.

In a society that promotes the image, it is impossible to not exist this illness. In the past 30 years it is developing a real obsession for loss of weight and diets. It is normally for you to wish to live healthy and to loose surplus of weight, but unfortunately a lot of persons takes drastic measures for loosing weight.

Teen-agers and anorexia

Most of the people that suffers of anorexia are woman, usually teen-agers or young girls. It has been estimated that 2 % of woman between 10 - 20 years old are anorexic. Tough, even 6 years old girls or 76 years woman can suffer of this illness. Instead, among men, anorexia is rarely seen, only 5% of the anorexic persons are men.

When it appears?

Anorexia appears usually before puberty or after the ends of the studies. It can also apear in stress periods, that includes sexual or emotional abuse, lost of job or even divorce. Without treatment, 20% of the anorexic persons are dieing.

Causes

Causes that produce anorexia were recently discovered, there are 3 important factors :

- genetic : one of the causes is the person personality, a perfectionist person have inclination for anxiety or depressing is liable of anorexia. It is also genetic inherited.

- psychological : anorexia is unleashed by psychological factors. People who feels overwhelmed by some problems are passive to the risk of anorexia.

- social : one of the common causes of anorexia is the pattern that society is imposing. A woman feel forced to have a skinny figure to line up to the society.

Effects

- osteoporoze

- menstruation disorder

- infertility

- esophagus, teeth and stomach are damaged

- anal bleeding.

Conclusion

String woman is in fashion. Mass media messages have a big influence upon every young woman. Because of the wishing to be skinny, girls are in danger to die.

We should all be happy with what we have and wishing a healthy life style, both mental and physical. So..girls, be yourselves , do not try to copy a pattern from mass media, people will love you for who you really are, not for how you want to look.Besides men likes a woman with curves, don`t be embarrassed by that!

My advice is to think positive and be always with a big smile on your face, it is helpful in any moment, even when life its tough. We are stronger then we look! You will make it, trust me!