A Certain Hunger
A Certain HungerIn the essay "A Certain Hunger", by Maggie Helwig it shows how people can develop a negative body image about themselves because of the way society praise and glorifies models and "thin" celebrities. People would be more secure about themselves, if everyone would accept people as they are, and help the people who have these image problems before they lose control, lose self-
confidence and lose hope in themselves.
Anorexia nervosa and bulimia are unexplainable and illogical conditions that affects the mind. People become so caught up in their looks that they do not even see the harm they are doing to their bodies. Although these behaviours seems irrational, to people who have never had to deal with anorexia or bulimia, people with these diseases do not realise the severe mental conditions that they are developing.
When an anorexic person looks in the mirror she does not see a skeleton staring back at her, but the imaginary "fat"she has convinced herself that she has. It is hard to see when a person has gone to "far", because who is to say what too far is, because who knows what the perfect weight is. For that matter,perhaps there is no perfect weight. When a person gets too thin, though, it is not simply enough to tell her that she needs to eat, she knows that she is getting to thin, but she has starved her body for so long that her brain is telling her that she does not want to eat and that food isn't good for her.
In this day and age when no one in Canada should go hungry, let alone purposely starve herself, society is totally to blame. Models and celebrities are put on...
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