e. Finally, this self-persuasion comes true for women and their brain reacts the proper way refusing to accept food because subconsciously it is perceived as evil. Many people are suffering from this disorder, and even though there are few lethal cases registered it presents a severe problem. First of all it results in depression and inability to concentrate on work. Women’s self-esteem suffers greatly and it usually leads to severe physical disorders such as vomiting right after eating. The treatment for this disorder must be searched for in psychology because it is not caused by any physical factors but by the mental condition that women experience and that causes anorexia nervosa. For most women it starts as an enormous desire to look their best and have an ultimately slender and lean body. As it was mentioned earlier this desire seems to be dictated byVarious societies and cultures view the problem of obesity differently. Many centuries ago most countries in which massive famines and diseases were not a rare thing, being obese indicated being healthy, prosperous and having high status. Most businessmen, rich people, affluent and respectable members of society were proud of the fact that they had high content of fat in their bodies simply because food was a scarce resource in those days and many people starved to death having not enough provisions to accumulate fat in their bodies even if they wanted to. Not many people really cared about the problem of obesity back then and women in particular were not bothered by this phenomenon. Since having enough food to eat was the most important thing for people in the past being ample was considered prestigious; the beauty standards were set by the environment that people lived in and the ideas of how shapely and curvaceous a human body was supposed to be were derived in a similar manner. Medieval arts and poetry are the most comprehensive sources that give us an idea about the standards, stereotypes and beliefs that society maintained back then. For example most artists portrayed women having ample and curvaceous bodies as a universal symbol of beauty. Later due to the rapid industrial development as economies became sustainable enough to produce more food to feed the ever-increasing population those views radically shifted. In the present-day society the perception of beauty has changed drastically. Women having lean slender bodies are considered attractive. The attitude toward obesity has shifted too and now people are fighting this problem like never before. The emergence of a belief that lean and slender body type is a symbol of health, prosperity and success made eating disorders more common. The people suffering from anorexia nervosa in particular are mostly women anywhere between 11 and 60 years of age. Eating disorders have become much more common lately but predominantly in countries with robust economies that can produce food cheaply in great amounts.

The emergence of eating disorders like anorexia nervosa seems to be directly linked to the shift in values and standards in society. The environment dictates that it is good to be thin. Consuming too much fat is considered unhealthy, and evil. This cannot but affect women’s perceptions of life and reality; it also forms their habits and influences the daily activities that women engage in. It is a fact that many women become obsessed with how beautiful and attractive their body is. Today, it is perceived as beautiful if a body is lean and not so much curvaceous. This is the current beauty standard that is established in the western society at present. Consequently, many women become literally obsessed with how much fat they consume each day and how many calories they burn on a treadmill in their homes. Generally, doctors proclaim that fat consumption is detrimental to the health of our bodies. Also it makes them look chubby and ample and it is not a good thing. Anorexia nervosa is the extreme point, the last stage of the self-destructive process of obsession with their bodies. It happens when a woman convinces herself that eating is bad and the only thing that can be derived from it is extra calories that in its turn make her body look less attractive. Eating is bad because it makes her gain extra pounds that are so hard to get rid of once they are there. Finally, this self-persuasion comes true for women and their brain reacts the proper way refusing to accept food because subconsciously it is perceived as evil. Many people are suffering from this disorder, and even though there are few lethal cases registered it presents a severe problem. First of all it results in depression and inability to concentrate on work. Women’s self-esteem suffers greatly and it usually leads to severe physical disorders such as vomiting right after eating. The treatment for this disorder must be searched for in psychology because it is not caused by any physical factors but by the mental condition that women experience and that causes anorexia nervosa. For most women it starts as an enormous desire to look their best and have an ultimately slender and lean body. As it was mentioned earlier this desire seems to be dictated by

at people lived in and the ideas of how shapely and curvaceous a human body was supposed to be were derived in a similar manner. Medieval arts and poetry are the most comprehensive sources that give us an idea about the standards, stereotypes and beliefs that society maintained back then. For example most artists portrayed women having ample and curvaceous bodies as a universal symbol of beauty. Later due to the rapid industrial development as economies became sustainable enough to produce more food to feed the ever-increasing population those views radically shifted. In the present-day society the perception of beauty has changed drastically. Women having lean slender bodies are considered attractive. The attitude toward obesity has shifted too and now people are fighting this problem like never before. The emergence of a belief that lean and slender body type is a symbol of health, prosperity and success made eating disorders more common. The people suffering from anorexia nervosa in particular are mostly women anywhere between 11 and 60 years of age. Eating disorders have become much more common lately but predominantly in countries with robust economies that can produce food cheaply in great amounts.

The emergence of eating disorders like anorexia nervosa seems to be directly linked to the shift in values and standards in society. The environment dictates that it is good to be thin. Consuming too much fat is considered unhealthy, and evil. This cannot but affect women’s perceptions of life and reality; it also forms their habits and influences the daily activities that women engage in. It is a fact that many women become obsessed with how beautiful and attractive their body is. Today, it is perceived as beautiful if a body is lean and not so much curvaceous. This is the current beauty standard that is established in the western society at present. Consequently, many women become literally obsessed with how much fat they consume each day and how many calories they burn on a treadmill in their homes. Generally, doctors proclaim that fat consumption is detrimental to the health of our bodies. Also it makes them look chubby and ample and it is not a good thing. Anorexia nervosa is the extreme point, the last stage of the self-destructive process of obsession with their bodies. It happens when a woman convinces herself that eating is bad and the only thing that can be derived from it is extra calories that in its turn make her body look less attractive. Eating is bad because it makes her gain extra pounds that are so hard to get rid of once they are there. Finally, this self-persuasion comes true for women and their brain reacts the proper way refusing to accept food because subconsciously it is perceived as evil. Many people are suffering from this disorder, and even though there are few lethal cases registered it presents a severe problem. First of all it results in depression and inability to concentrate on work. Women’s self-esteem suffers greatly and it usually leads to severe physical disorders such as vomiting right after eating. The treatment for this disorder must be searched for in psychology because it is not caused by any physical factors but by the mental condition that women experience and that causes anorexia nervosa. For most women it starts as an enormous desire to look their best and have an ultimately slender and lean body. As it was mentioned earlier this desire seems to be dictated by

type is a symbol of health, prosperity and success made eating disorders more common. The people suffering from anorexia nervosa in particular are mostly women anywhere between 11 and 60 years of age. Eating disorders have become much more common lately but predominantly in countries with robust economies that can produce food cheaply in great amounts.

The emergence of eating disorders like anorexia nervosa seems to be directly linked to the shift in values and standards in society. The environment dictates that it is good to be thin. Consuming too much fat is considered unhealthy, and evil. This cannot but affect women’s perceptions of life and reality; it also forms their habits and influences the daily activities that women engage in. It is a fact that many women become obsessed with how beautiful and attractive their body is. Today, it is perceived as beautiful if a body is lean and not so much curvaceous. This is the current beauty standard that is established in the western society at present. Consequently, many women become literally obsessed with how much fat they consume each day and how many calories they burn on a treadmill in their homes. Generally, doctors proclaim that fat consumption is detrimental to the health of our bodies. Also it makes them look chubby and ample and it is not a good thing. Anorexia nervosa is the extreme point, the last stage of the self-destructive process of obsession with their bodies. It happens when a woman convinces herself that eating is bad and the only thing that can be derived from it is extra calories that in its turn make her body look less attractive. Eating is bad because it makes her gain extra pounds that are so hard to get rid of once they are there. Finally, this self-persuasion comes true for women and their brain reacts the proper way refusing to accept food because subconsciously it is perceived as evil. Many people are suffering from this disorder, and even though there are few lethal cases registered it presents a severe problem. First of all it results in depression and inability to concentrate on work. Women’s self-esteem suffers greatly and it usually leads to severe physical disorders such as vomiting right after eating. The treatment for this disorder must be searched for in psychology because it is not caused by any physical factors but by the mental condition that women experience and that causes anorexia nervosa. For most women it starts as an enormous desire to look their best and have an ultimately slender and lean body. As it was mentioned earlier this desire seems to be dictated by

ed as beautiful if a body is lean and not so much curvaceous. This is the current beauty standard that is established in the western society at present. Consequently, many women become literally obsessed with how much fat they consume each day and how many calories they burn on a treadmill in their homes. Generally, doctors proclaim that fat consumption is detrimental to the health of our bodies. Also it makes them look chubby and ample and it is not a good thing. Anorexia nervosa is the extreme point, the last stage of the self-destructive process of obsession with their bodies. It happens when a woman convinces herself that eating is bad and the only thing that can be derived from it is extra calories that in its turn make her body look less attractive. Eating is bad because it makes her gain extra pounds that are so hard to get rid of once they are there. Finally, this self-persuasion comes true for women and their brain reacts the proper way refusing to accept food because subconsciously it is perceived as evil. Many people are suffering from this disorder, and even though there are few lethal cases registered it presents a severe problem. First of all it results in depression and inability to concentrate on work. Women’s self-esteem suffers greatly and it usually leads to severe physical disorders such as vomiting right after eating. The treatment for this disorder must be searched for in psychology because it is not caused by any physical factors but by the mental condition that women experience and that causes anorexia nervosa. For most women it starts as an enormous desire to look their best and have an ultimately slender and lean body. As it was mentioned earlier this desire seems to be dictated bye. Finally, this self-persuasion comes true for women and their brain reacts the proper way refusing to accept food because subconsciously it is perceived as evil. Many people are suffering from this disorder, and even though there are few lethal cases registered it presents a severe problem. First of all it results in depression and inability to concentrate on work. Women’s self-esteem suffers greatly and it usually leads to severe physical disorders such as vomiting right after eating. The treatment for this disorder must be searched for in psychology because it is not caused by any physical factors but by the mental condition that women experience and that causes anorexia nervosa. For most women it starts as an enormous desire to look their best and have an ultimately slender and lean body. As it was mentioned earlier this desire seems to be dictated by society.

From the biological standpoint when humans are born they already have some degree of genetic predisposition to various physical, psychological and social activities in the world. It is a fact that the future development of a person is predetermined by genes and an individual is not totally free to develop all the possible skills and abilities later in life. Even though mostly every person has a moral right to try to develop a certain physical or psychological skill some people succeed while others fail. It is not a surprise because our body has a certain innate set of features that characterize our personality and literally channel the future development of an individual in a certain predetermined direction. By the same token, some people are predisposed to have a higher content of fat in the body no matter how many hours a day they exercise and others are predetermined to have slim and slender bodies given the fact that they might not exercise at all. For some people it does not really matter how much they eat and whether they exercise at all because fat has less influence on the shape of their bodies, in other words fat is more likely to be burnt automatically in the course of various internal chemical reactions in the body. This idea is akin to the premise that some people are better at playing basketball while others excel in natural sciences and other math-intensive disciplines. Therefore the fact that some people are born to have chubby and ample bodies simply means that it is a part of an internal design that is innate to their bodies and that cannot be completely altered like a short person cannot get much taller regardless of any physical exercises that might be developed in the world today.

When a woman who is predisposed to maintain a high fat content in the body focuses on how many calories she consumes daily an eating disorder is very likely to occur. Such women are likely to spend hours in front of the mirror in a hope to determine that their waistline has got somewhat slimmer as a result of diets, active physical training and abstinence from eating. This obsession becomes an addiction, to put it lightly. The body becomes the primary focus of their attention they desperately try to burn more fat simply to meet certain beauty standards that are created by the society. The environment dictates a person what clothes is more fashionable, what food is healthier and what cars are more reliable. As a result often a snowball effect occurs in the sense that many people just follow the crowd and have no personal ideas regarding certain matters. The situation with beauty standards is very similar. Some women try to lose weight not because they are too fat, on the contrary they may look very attractive and have shapely bodies and yet they desperately want their bodies to be slender and less curvaceous.

A couple of centuries ago, society had very similar requirements as to the beauty standards for women. In a similar manner a woman that had a thin body was considered to be more attractive as compared to women that suffered from obesity. Furthermore, women whose bodies were not perfectly slender tried to make their bodies look slimmer and leaner with the help of some elaborate inventions or simply by wearing clothes that conceals the body shape. The development of corsets for example helped women hide the fact that they were overweight and therefore probably made them feel a little b