How Eating Disorders affect our Society...

We are in a globalized world where the media are very important to keep us informed about what is happening.

One feature of these media is that they transmit models, which are often harmful to people. An example of this is the big modeling industry, it transmitted patterns of "beauty", and they call the attention of many young people, which want to be like them.

To achieve this standard of beauty, most of the time, these girls fall into eating disorders. This is a very complicated subject, is given mostly in women, and in the case of men is less common. There are two types of disorders, bulimia and anorexia. The first is when you eat excessive amounts of food, but then you vomit it, in the second case the person tries to eat the fewest calories possible.

This is where this topic can be linked to our culture, because the modeling industry is very strong and powerful, has great coverage and spreads easily, to prevent children and young people fall into such an unfortunate situation, we as future teachers must promote healthy life, we must emphasize the beauty of each of our students, because being thin is not always a sign of health. 

If we want students to care the world, we must start teaching them to care for themselves...

Therefore, we must be wary of trying to follow models because they can even cause our death. Be yourself, you must be agree  with your body, with your appearance, and if you want to change something, it should always be in a healthy way...

But I must point out one very important point, based on the influence of the environment surrounding the person. Most of the times these problems shows a serious lack of attention from parents, so they should worry more about their children because they're their  parents. 

Many times the teacher in the school must fill that void and support the empty space left by parents. 

Friends play an important role to support people in their rehabilitation process.

I asked some questions ...

In the absence of family support, friendship and teacher's support, Who will watch over these people?

What methods could be used to create a nice society which helps those people? 

A society that don´t discriminate those people?

What methods can be useful to prevent our youth from falling into these diseases?

Dina Tapia Quezada