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Eating Disorders
The disturbing trend of the growing need to be "beautiful" in
American society today has gotten quite out of hand. The stories of
celebrities' drug use, eating disorders, and rehab stints fills the
covers of tabloids, magazines, and even reputable newspapers have
not helped matters much either. Instead of deterring young,
impressionable children (and even not so young impressionable
teenagers), these tabloids and pictures of too-skinny models and
actresses act as role models for the children, and they grow up
thinking that in order to be beautiful, you have to be 86 pounds
when you're 17 years old, and look like a skeleton.
The increasing number of rehab
check-ins by celebrities is astonishing. Nicole Richie, Lindsay
Lohan, and Mary-Kate Olsen, all heroines for the pre-teen
population, have all spent time in rehab. Lindsay Lohan and Nicole
Richie have spent time for alcohol abuse and drug abuse,
respectively, and all three have had therapy for eating disorders.
Anna Nicole Smith, more recently,
died February 8, due to unknown causes, but many are speculating.
Many say she had a drug problem and yet more say her death was due
to her use of the dietary supplement Trimspa, with which she lost
many pounds and became a spokeswoman for.
Instead of promoting these types of
celebrities, our society should learn to condemn them. Though most
adults believe they are ridiculous, they do nothing to either
discourage their young children from looking up to them, or promote
more healthy lifestyles and celebrities, such as Kate Winslet,
Scarlett Johanssen, or Queen Latifah. The only way our society will
learn to deal with this disturbing, horrifying, disgusting trend of
defining "beauty" is by either promoting the motto that healthy is
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