What is Considered Beautiful Article, "Globalization of Eating Disorders" by Susan Borno

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Binge eating is a disorder in which a person will eat an excessive amount of food because she or he cannot control themelves. According to this article “The Globalization of Eating Disorders” writing 'Susan Borno, explains how easy it is to get caught up, obese and how it influence young men and women. Susan points out that the influence of the western media has created a globalization problem with eating disorders. In other words, she carefully examines the cross-culture spread of men and women of all ages who have lost their immunity to eating disorders. In the same manner most women change their diet to achieve the western image of beauty. Women around the globe used to be comfortable with their body, but after they have been exposed to the media’s image of beauty, of certain countries such as Great Britain, United States and Australia, they now have a different perspective toward their body image. I agree that in today’s world the image of binge eating does influence men and women.

We are living in a society where people believe that the way they look affect their environment. Eating disorders are a huge problem around the world, some of these disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia and others. People are getting affected by these disorders are really obsessed by food. Likewise by looking across the world like China, Fiji and Africa, Susan introduces many ways that people could increase their diet. First of all, let’s take a look at the women of the Fuji islands, before television was introduced to them in 1995, they used to admire their bodies image with no complaints. Although the images slender who has introduces slim women on advertisement on televised commercials made them feel that their bodies wer...

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...nly influences women but also the opposite gender.

The author and I are experiencing the same point of view on how the media influence people around us. This article is not only written for any particular group, race, ethnicity, gender, etc… I think as a human being, this article is related to all of us. The author has done an outstanding job for all of us by describing as people how the media represent a big problem for our society or our community. I learned a valuable lesson from this article, which I also discovered that central Africa women must have hips, but because of the western image that value is no longer applicable. I also encourage everyone to stay focused and love their culture while watching some TV shows because it is easy to forget about who you are and adopted another way of doing things you never used to do before.