EATING DISORDERS FOR HAVING SLIM FIGURE

MANY TEENS RISK HEALTH FOR
COPYING CELEBRITY ROLE MODELS

KOREA (Daily News) - More than one in 10 teenagers suffer from eating disorders, trying to avoid food as much as possible or alternating between fasting and bingeing in an effort to lose weight, a study reveals. A team of researchers led by Oh Sang-woo, a specialist in family medicine at Dongguk University Ilsan Hospital, surveyed 5,000 middle and high school students last November and found that 15 percent of female students and 9.9 percent of males have eating disorders. Eating disorders appear frequently among teenage girls and the problem often continues into adulthood," said Lee Yong-ho, a neuropsychiatrist. Anorexia prevents the body from functioning properly. If menstruation stops for more than three months during a diet, anorexia could be the cause.

Bulimia is another eating disorder, but in contrast to anorexia, bulimics are unable to control their eating. First they binge on food, then they vomit or take pills to induce diarrhea, and then repeat the process. If this type of behavior occurs more than twice a week and continues for three months, it could be considered bulimia. Eating disorders inhibit normal physical growth in teenagers and can result in long-term health problems. Because their parents are often unaware of the problem, many teenage sufferers miss crucial opportunities to get treatment. Eating disorders are not simply a fixation on weight, but are often accompanied by depression, personality disorders and anxiety. As a result, many cases require psychiatric help. "Teenagers with eating disorders often refuse to be treated, because they are fixated on losing weight," said Yu Bum-hee, a psychiatrist at Samsung Medical Center. "Parents need to make their children realize that eating disorders are not just problems about eating, but a disease that needs to be treated."


Today, Anorexia and Bulimia are diseases that affect young women, mainly due to the bad advertising, which proposes to adolescents to have a fashion model's body, even at the expense of ruining their health. The following video shows how a person suffering from these problems sees herself.

WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US?

Many individuals are easily moldable, naive, despite the fact the human being is potentially able to investigate, discriminate, and question negative or harmful things to themselves and to other beings. Advertising takes advantage of that weakness, when is used with a bad conscience to create trends, attitudes, tastes, needs ... What interests to large advertising companies is to convince with their message, although it has to resort to lies, and sells anything, without measuring the consequences of their use. ... Working in advertising is a big responsibility. So, it is essential that this profession must be done with conscious and involving the truth.

Śrīla Bhakti Aloka Paramadvaiti Mahārāja :
“Conscious Advertising” - “Vedic Wisdom Collection”
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http://www.sabiduriavedica.org/sv.php?id=109_81
http://publicidadconsciente.blogspot.com/2010/01/anorexia-y-bulimia.html