No, it's been around for a while. But I think that the media make it look more prevalent because there's a lot of focus on it (like today on Dr. Phil, for instance.)
Also, I think that anorexia probably couldn't go as far before because there wasn't health care for eating disorders in particular, and also, health care is better in general. Now, there is treatment for mental health issues, and also for the associated conditions of anorexia, like osteoporosis and heart/kidney disease. I mean, now you can get Gatorade in like, 20 flavors, but not all that long ago, people didn't know how electrolytes worked in the body and how you could go into cardiac arrest if they were out of whack. They just knew that if you starved, you died. So I don't think self-starvation would go as far, since you'd die of something or other before you got super-incredibly-skinny.
It's a paradox of modern medicine that you can be sick enough to die but still be kept alive, so that conditions that would have killed you long ago now seem to have just *appeared*, when really, they'd have been there all along if there had been medical care to prolong life. Like head injuries--there's much better care for head trauma, so now you see people who would have died but then they're kept in a coma state for years...progress? Not always. But people stay alive in comas much more often these days because they don't die from the initial trauma. So there's less death from head traumas and more comas. Now, there's less death from cardiac arrest and kidney failure, so anorexia can go to much greater extremes before it kills you.
I read somewhere that anorexia was first really noticed in Victorian times, what with all the swooning and corsets and focusing on skinny waists and all that. Families would be all controlling about a girl's future, and she would rebel by controlling her diet, I guess that was the thinking. But it's been an issue for quite some time.
Martyrs and saints tend to enjoy the sensation of not eating--it leads to ecstatic visions and sh!t like that. But I don't know how reliable the visions would be if you were suffering from an eating disorder. Most self-sacrificing types were regarded as crazy even back when they were alive, and they'd certainly get themselves committed to mental facilities today. Weird how they're revered for starving themselves! I certainly don't find it holy.
2006-11-16 10:36:03
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answered by SlowClap 6
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2016-10-15 15:43:32
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answered by ? 4
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While it's been around for ever, it's a relatively recent event in the whole span of humankind since before about 500 years ago, there was not enough efficient means of food production to encourage overeating, so being fat usually meant having enough to eat well.
2006-11-16 10:35:20
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answered by Anonymous
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well anorexia is the symptom of ill health since time immemorial...it is literally 'not feeling hungry' .....only healthy people are getting anorexic due to tv/media peer pressure these days!!
2006-11-16 10:30:09
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answered by Anonymous
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No, I think people used to have it before tv/media, but since tv/media there have been much more anorexic and bulemic people.
2006-11-16 10:28:16
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answered by Brengirl112 1
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It's not new, it has been around for ever, however, there are more cases of it now (especially in teenage girls) due to media.
2006-11-16 10:28:19
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answered by The Answer Man 3
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its not new..it has been around a long time.....its just that now the awareness of it has now been put in the media to help prevent it.
2006-11-16 10:27:25
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answered by kndykisz 4
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no its a psychological disorder. its been around forever
2006-11-16 10:34:45
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answered by Anonymous
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