Does America have eating disorders- Anorexia or Obesity?

Question

All the media screams out is: Your fat! Lose weight! And when I read all these blogs from teen girls saying they weigh 140 and still think they are fat it makes me want to cry! According to health reports, "America IS obese". But is that really the thing to be saying when we have sixteen year olds starving them selfs to look "hott" like the anorexic cocaine using celebs? Is America fat because we are depressed? Or are we just lazy? How bout these anorexic women who are 25 and weigh 105 pounds- is that really obese?

Answer 1

Both are a problem people should be aware of. If the media only talks about anorexia, will 16 year old girls all get fat.

Overall obesity is more prevalent in teens today. That does not mean the we do not address the other problem.

People have always foolishly followed fads.

Answer 2

Because being thin or undereating isn't an eating disorder and neither is being fat. The vast majority of the obese recognize that they are overweight. And the majority are trying to lose weight. Routinely eating to the point of being uncomfortable *is* considered a disorder - binge eating disorder. But just saying that fat people must be eating past fullness or the point of discomfort because they're fat isn't borne out. People have different appetites (we know this, because tall/muscular people *have* to consume a lot more calories than petite people - so there must be a different regulation of their appetite. So you don't know that someone who's eating more than you must have gotten full at the same time you did, and just kept eating longer. In fact, it doesn't work that way at all.

Answer 3

Once you have a weight problem, you can become really neurotic about food. We do less physical acitivites now. We have tv, internet and video games now and therefore we don't tend to burn off many calories.

Answer 4

america is fat or skinny because the government says they are the government is trying to tell us now what to eat. and they call that freedom.
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Answer 5

yes America do