Photoshop: The Unrealistic Model

Bulimia nervosa, also called bulimia is a possible life threating eating disorder. A person that suffers from bulimia may secretly binge their food. They may eat large amount of food and then purge their food to get rid of the additional calories that they’ve digested. Bulimia is categorized in two ways, purging bulimia and non-purging bulimia. Purging bulimia is when a person regularly self-induces vomiting after eating. Non-purging bulimia is when an individual may use other methods to try to prevent weight gain, such as fasting, extreme dieting, or overly exercising.

Anorexia is an eating disorder that struggles with the fear of gaining weight and refuses to be healthy. Another eating disorder is Bulimia, which is when you overeat followed by forced vomiting and excessive exercise. Binge Eating is one of the most common eating disorders along with Anorexia and Bulimia, Binge eating is when you lose control over one’s eating. All of these common eating disorders all suffer from guilt or depression. “Individuals with bulimia and binge eating eat large amounts of food to reduce stress” (CEDC). They also could have risky behaviors, such as dealing with drugs or alcohol or even death. People with Anorexia or Bulimia are very concerned with being overweight or in other words fat.

Anorexia is a very serious eating disorder that causes your mind and your body to be completely obsessive about staying thin; also there have been a few cases where patients have taken self-starvation so far that it becomes life threating. There are many signs and symptoms to anorexia, a few include but are not limited to, “the refusal to eat, the denial of hunger, social withdrawal, unhealthy thin appearance, and lack of emotions” (Eating Disorders). Bulimia eating disorder is

According to NEDA anorexia is the “intense fear of weight gain,” which leads to starving oneself to the point of malnutrition ("Types & Symptoms of Eating Disorders”). Bulimia is when a person continually consumes large amounts of food, followed by purging or excessive working out to eliminate the chance of weight gain. Binge eating is similar to bulimia, both consume large amounts, but binge eaters do this and then eat nothing for a while. Their eating patterns go from enormous amounts of food to nothing and back again (“Types & Symptoms of Eating Disorders”). Public awareness about all these eating disorders has been spread, some doctors preach eating right and working out, but few people listen to or act on the doctors words. Eating disorders have become a major problem in American and we need a solution soon.

Bulimia nervosa, also known as bulimia, is a serious, potentially life-threatening eating disorder in which the person secretly eats food. There are two different types of Bulimia that include Purging and Nonpurging. Purging bulimia is where a people regularly vomits or uses laxatives after eating a large amount of food. Nonpurging bulimia is where a people uses different methods such as fasting or excessive exercise to remove calories in order to prevent gaining weight. Some symptoms of bulimia are being worried about body and gaining weight, uncontrollable eating, feeling discomfort after eating, large binge eating episode, vomit or exercise after eating, misusing laxatives, restricting calories, and excessive use of dietary supplements. The exact cause of bulimia are unknown, but some doctors say that it is caused by

Bulimia nervosa is another form of eating disorder. It poses a more serious, potentially life-threatening disorder (Mayo 2016). People with bulimia tend to eat large amounts of food and then vomit to try and get rid of the extra calories in an unhealthy way (Mayo 2016). Bulimia is categorized in two ways which include purging and non-purging. Purging is self-induced vomiting or the misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or enemas after binging (Mayo 2016). Non-purging is where one uses other methods such as dieting, fasting, or excessive exercising in order to prevent weight

Anorexia is a loss or a lack of appetite for food. Bulimia is over eating and can follow with vomiting or fasting. Bulimia comes with a lot of emotional issues too. Some people refer to Anorexia and bulimia as “women diseases.” These two medical conditions are more commonly seen in women, but that does not mean men do not suffer greatly. Research was taken and they found these cases affected seven million women and only one million men. It is actually a fact it is more dangerous for men to develop an eating disorder than women. The reason for this is because men will get down to the lowest weight and begin to lose valuable muscle and tissues. This is different than just losing fat.

The blog “Photoshopping: Altering images and our minds” discusses how these images have affected our society in a negative light. One portion of this blog I found particularly interesting was the edit of Britney Spears in her music video. Instead of showing her natural body, they morphed it. Websites such as Target are apart of the problem as well. Determined to follow recent trends, they photoshopped their teen models. Businesses sell an unrealistic

Bulimics often like to hide food and is very good at it. They like to eat alone or away from people. Another symptom is “disappearing after meals” to go vomit or gag themselves, “bulimics patients will often wait around 1 or 2 hours after eating”. “using laxatives” is also another symptom for another symptom for bulimia. Bulimic patients use laxatives to have serious bowel movements, this is very dangerous to and for the body. Therefore bulimia patients will just do about anything to themselves for them to look a certain way or to be a certain size.

Anorexia is more known as a fear to gain weight and the people who have it perceive their bodies as negative. Its more dangerous than bulimia because it’s more of a purge eating than binging. Purge eating is when you provoke yourself to vomit when you haven’t eaten which creates it a re-curing

Bulimia is a severe eating disorder that causes health problems. Bulimia is a potentially life-threatening eating disorder and if not treated it can lead to death. This eating disorder is a cycle of binging and self-induced vomiting is used to the effect of binge eating. Many bulimic people don’t see the damage they are causing to themselves but even though they think it’s harmless because it’s just vomit that’s where they are wrong.

We must also consider the effects of anorexia. People with anorexia experience hair loss and fingernail breakage. Women who suffer will begin to have period loss. Those who continue to be anorexic without getting help can become anemic and even begin to develop very brittle bones. Anorexia is a serious medical illness, and with severe malnutrition anorexia can also cause death.

In-patients with anorexia, starvation can damage vital organs such as the heart and brain. To protect itself, the body shifts into " slow gear ": monthly menstrual periods stop, breathing, pulse and, blood pressure rates drop, and thyroid function slows. Nails and hair become brittle, the skin dries, yellows, and becomes covered with soft hair called lanugo. Excessive thirst and frequent urination may occur. Dehydration contributes to constipation, and reduced body fat leads to lowered body temperature and inability to with stand cold. Mild anemia, swollen joints, reduced muscles mass, and light headedness also commonly occur in anorexia. If the disorder becomes severe, patients may lose calcium from their bones, making them brittle and prone to breakage. Scientists from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have also found that patients suffer from other psychiatric illnesses. They may suffer from anxiety, personality or substance abuse disorders, and many are at a risk for suicide. Obsessive compulsive disorder, an illness characterized by repetitive thoughts and behaviors, can also accompany anorexia.

Bulimia is one of the many eating disorders found among Americas today. People with eating disorders, such as bulimia or anorexia, spend every day locked inside the mindset that they are fat. Someone with bulimia nervosa eats as much food as they can in one sitting and then purges the food they just consumed. Purging can be many things; for example forced vomiting, the use of laxatives, also over exercising can be a form of purging. People purge to get rid of the excess calories or fat after they consume large amounts of food. Binging and purging are often successfully hidden by bulimics for many years because the individual maintains a normal body weight or at least close to normal.

Currently anything and everything is affecting children from forms of disciplining to modes of supervising. However, one of the most negative effect technology is having on is found when we look to see who children today are being told to look up to and what we are placing our values on. When a young female between the ages of 8-14 are presented with an image of a size two models; many young woman today nearly instantly think within herself that what they are being presented with is the ideal image that they could mimic. Yet, these individuals are children who are receiving mixed messages; knowing what the most popular face shape is, paired with eye distance, cheek height, bone position and symmetry, and topped off with lighting and color configurations makes it possible for people who are trained to use software like Adobe Creative Suite to “Create anything you can imagine.” The use of Photoshop appears to have fostered false and unrealistic body images. By seeing drastically retouched photos of models has lowered self-esteem