This write was inspired after watching an alarming special report on TV in regards to a subject that truly moves my heart, and has a woman and a mother deeply concerned me what the media and stars are not only doing to themselves also to our daughters to us has women , from the ones who design our fashion our clothes imposing us in order to fit their molds and fashion, that women are dieting big goofs are getting filthy rich our the expense our daughters health, by demeaning us killing women of every age and standards in society i urge you pray you will read carefully and read with your heart this is not fictions this is life and death matter affecting women around the globe!!
Runways models 99 percent anorexic or bulimic many passing out on stage
Stars red carpet down to a size zero in order to fit in a dress to get work be on front page
Most dying starving according to studies of the human bodies are faced with bone lost premature aging
Hollywood promoting anorexia bulimia fashion industry ,plastic surgery diet pills a billion dollars robbery
All promoting laughing their way to the bank while women are dying starving seriously
Where do we draw the line take charge and say boldly enough is enough are we puppets
When we are the consumers don;t we have a say why are we letting these people dictate beauty
When you go to a store to buy clothes a size eight at hundred pounds you cant; fit in it honestly
A size ten is a plus size even then only a little child could fit in it,
Every year clothing line shrinks three sizes from the year prior is a sign wake up ladies you do have a say
We do have a say do say no to this idolatry of skinny!
Yes healthy is what should be the focus the priority not starvation,the mirror of our future
Why are women killing themselves to try to follow and fit in a trend they realistically will never fit in healthy way
This who design have they ever walked in a woman's shoes that of a real woman,
Sure would like to see one them high fashion pink hair who wear more mascara then women do try it for a day
Walk to the kids to the park go to work standing all day behind a desk at grocery store on four inch pointy heels,
Your toes all crushed and pants below the belly shirts three times to little material to hide your upper body
Sexy no a crime of fashion how disrespectful to even suggest that this would make a woman look pretty!
Mothers tell your daughter how beautiful they are be their role models take a stand,
Say no to this foolishness and we do have a say we are the consumers leave the stores empty
Don;t buy into this trend of skinny ,pointy, below the belly,madness that we are falling victims too
When has eating healthy food daily nutrition's is not the crime here fashion is the goofs,
Who are getting billions our hard earned money promoting giving less to get richer women their targets
Me and you our daughters , sisters , falling victims anorexics bulimics dying to fit in
And add more all those greedy, selfish, fools, who fill at our expense their pockets.
These are some information please read <,,
Author: Tracy A Farkas, MD, Staff Physician, Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital
Coauthor(s): Ron Waldrop, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Louisiana State University, Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center
Tracy A Farkas, MD, is a member of the following medical societies: American College of Emergency Physicians, American Medical Women's Association, Emergency Medicine Residents' Association, and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Background: Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric disorder characterized by the refusal to maintain a minimally normal weight, often with severe physiologic consequences. Patients have a profoundly disturbed body image as well as an intense fear of weight gain despite being severely underweight.
Diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV (DSM-IV) include the following:
A refusal to maintain body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for age and height (usually less than 85% of ideal body weight)
Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat
Disturbance in the way one's body weight or shape is experienced, with denial of current low body weight
Amenorrhea in postmenarcheal females of at least 3 menstrual cycles
The disorder may be further divided into 2 subtypes: (1) restricting, in which severe limitation of food intake is the primary means to weight loss, and (2) binge-eating/purging type, in which there are periods of food intake that are compensated by self-induced vomiting, laxative or diuretic abuse, or excessive exercise.
Other physiologic causes of malnutrition, weight loss, and amenorrhea must be ruled out to make the diagnosis.
Patients with anorexia nervosa often display other personality characteristics such as a desire for perfection, academic success, lack of age-appropriate sexual activity, and a denial of hunger in the face of starvation. Psychiatric characteristics include excessive dependency needs, developmental immaturity, social isolation, obsessive-compulsive behavior, and constriction of affect. Many patients also have comorbid mood disorders, with depression and dysthymic disorder being most prevalent.
Pathophysiology: Anorexia nervosa is the result of a complex interplay between biological, psychological, and social factors, which tend to affect women more than men, and adolescents more than older women. Some evidence suggests a higher rate of the disorder in monozygotic twins than in dizygotic twins, which may indicate a biologic predisposition.
Psychologically, prepubescent patients who subsequently develop anorexia nervosa have a high incidence of premorbid anxiety disorders. The onset of the disorder during puberty has led to the theory that, by exerting control over food intake and body weight, adolescents are attempting to compensate for a lack of autonomy and selfhood.
The patient's altered body image results in a perception of fatness despite being normal or underweight. Attempts to correct this flaw through food restriction or purging lead to progressive starvation. Modern preoccupation with slenderness and beauty in the Western world may contribute to the mindset of slenderness as a valued quality in adolescents; however, this link has not been proven.
Malnutrition subsequent to self-starvation leads to protein deficiency and disruption of multiple organ systems. In addition to hypoglycemia and vitamin deficiencies, starvation results in release of endogenous opioids, hypercortisolemia, and thyroid function suppression. Neuroendocrine disturbances result in delayed puberty, amenorrhea, anovulation, low estrogen states, increased growth hormone, decreased antidiuretic hormone, hypercarotenemia, and hypothermia. Decreased gonadotropin levels and hypogonadism may occur among males who are affected.
Cardiovascular effects include mitral valve prolapse, supraventricular and ventricular dysrhythmias, long QT syndrome, bradycardia, orthostatic hypotension, and shock due to congestive heart failure.
Internationally: Anorexia nervosa is found in all developed countries and in all socioeconomic classes at similar rates (0.3-1% in women, 0.1% in men).
Mortality/Morbidity: Anorexia nervosa has one of the highest mortality rates of all psychiatric disorders, with rates reported from 5-18%. Patients with restricting subtype tend to have more resistance to recovery.
Approximately 50% of patients will recover with treatment and maintain a normal weight but often not without relapses and multiple treatment modalities. Mortality is often due to suicide and less frequently to complications of starvation