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Some - but certainly not all - women in the fashion industry, such as actresses, models, designers, etc., are affected by eating disorders like anorexia because the current social standard is to be thin.
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How does anorexia affect males?
Although males comprise only about 1/10 of all people with anorexia, when they do have anorexia they are affected as severely as are women with the same illness. Males are affected by anorexia in the same way as women are: for example, they can have organ failure, extreme emaciation, and even death. However, males with anorexia may not be taken as seriously as women because anorexia is often viewed as a women's disease.
Who is buying fashion magazines?
Anybody can buy a fashion Magazine. But usually, people who follow the trends, as in, teenage girls, and uptown women and men and people involved in the fashion industry, or indirectly affected by it.
How were women in America affected by the war?
They went to work in Industry
Who are more prevalant men or women anorexia?
Anorexia affrects women to men in a ratio of about 9 to 1.
What do you consider as a missed opportunity within south African fashion retail market?
If I were to think of the fashion retail industry, a missed opportunity would be clothes that are suitable to fit bigger women. Our fashion retail industry has failed bigger women miserably. Most South African women are not skinny including the European decent ones. Although there are clothing for this market they remain bland.
What eating disorder are males more likely to be affected by more than women?
Anorexia Athletica (excessive exercise to gain muscle and physique) Muscle Dystrophy
What systems are affected by anorexia?
Every body system is affected by anorexia. The immune system is weakened, internal organs are subject to stress and / or failure, menstruation can stop in women, brain function slows down, the skin will become dry and flaky, hair and nails will become dry and brittle and colorless / discolored, etc., just to name a few.
Who does anorexia effect?
anorexia most commonly affects teenage/young girls and women who are quiet, shy, well behaved and high acheivers at school. but lots of people can get anorexia...men, women, different ages.
Which of these eating disorders is more likely to affect men than woman bulimia nervosa chronic dieting anorexia nervosa muscle dysmorphia?
bulimia / anorexia - eating disroders, women are more affected than men by a 9 : 1 ratio. chronic dieting - women tend to diet significantly mroe than men do. muscle dysmorphia - can affect both men and women equally.
Is anorexia a common disease?
Sadly, anorexia is an extremely common disease. 1 out of every 3 teenage girls, and grown women have suffered, or are suffering from anorexia.
The fact that anorexia nervosa is more common in Western cultures supports which sociocultural model?
In Western nations, women are viewed as more attractive or beautiful if they are thinner. There is also a strong correlation between media, successful women, fashion, and the need to be thin to succeed.
Why did women's fashion change in world war 1?
Partly because of the war they needed the supplies for the war and so the government had regulations. But the awsome fashion industry just created somthing new and cooler!!
