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“The media portrayed the hungry mannequins as an ideal of feminine beauty. It acts primarily on girls who want to meet him. And if we had had to deal with teenagers, now among the patients with anorexia are also ten-year old children,” – says the doctor once.

Doctor points out that modern medicine still has not developed effective ways to combat this disease. It is called a “diet” starvation threatens both physiological and psychological problems, one of which – the inability can bear children.

Many fashion models, as well as their employers – modeling agencies, categorically reject the allegations in imposing an unhealthy ideal of beauty. They argue that a certain percentage of models was just lucky with the metabolism, and the rest, eating perfectly fine, and then burn the calories in the gym. According to them, usually young girls starve himself to death, following the media that and their planted standards, and want to attract the attention of parents.

“The bill in its current form is contrary to the law on equal opportunities in employment and in fact introduce a ban on the profession. As a result, healthy and constantly watching girl may be deprived of her livelihood”, – said representative of the agency “Julia,” David Yeshayahu. He was sure that no one would ever have decided to discriminate against those who are overweight, as stated in Anorexia nervosa.

Yeshayahu recognizes that the body mass index in a third of his charges – below 18.5, but emphasized: the sick and malnourished among them. Representatives of the fashion business say that the standards adopted in the West, would introduce more explicit criteria thinness, as the international standards take into account muscle and fat mass.

If the bill passes, the face of the Israeli fashion industry will change forever. Opponents of his decision are going to use the forthcoming discussion of the parliamentary committee on labor, social protection and health, to convey to the members their views. At the same time they understand that chances to break the broad coalition of elected representatives, nutritionists and simple Israelis quite a bit.

Last year on this issue very openly expressed in the blog, the most famous among the Israeli model – Bar Rafaeli: “I became very sad when I see the pale and emaciated 15-year-models of various agencies who roam on the move and seem to be starving… when will it end ?!?!?” Bar itself, she says, never adjusted the figure by means of exhausting diets or knife surgery.

All in all, anorexia – is a serious neuro-psychiatric illness. Despite the fact that many sufferers (mostly young women) can live and work among us and outwardly give the impression of just physically exhausted, the main cause is due to nervous exhaustion, deep intrapersonal conflict – opposition to yourself and your body. One of the psychological symptoms of anorexia nervosa is a disturbance of perception of its own self-image – dysmorphophobia. Even in the mirror they see themselves as fat, always imagining them “fat”. They believe that they not only look ugly, but very ugly. Formed pathological vicious circle: is the dissatisfaction with his body, his refusal to punish the most important needs of the body – food, poor health, and then even more discontent with his body, as stated in What is Anorexia nervosa?

The biggest problem is that these girls do not listen to the opinion of friends, do not believe that they were not “fat”, or ugly, they do not need to have a diet. They believe that they have physical problems, not mental. At all entreaties to turn to family therapists, they meet failure.

The most appropriate way to treat anorexia nervosa – is a psychotherapy and psychopharmatherapy, be sure to observe the doctor-therapist. Sometimes, though, it also happens that in the context of a positive stress (for example, love), a man knocks out the vicious circle of anorexia nervosa, and there comes a temporary improvement, when a woman marries, she has a child, and if the problem of rejection of his body does not go away. This could turn into overweight and obesity even. In many cases, the disease leads to more serious consequences in the form of mental disorder, as described in Anorexia nervosa.

Psychotherapists stubbornly continue to insist that the mass desire of modern women to weight loss, which is primarily associated with those images, which throw their media. Victoria Beckham and Calista Flockhart with their super-thin figures on the covers of glossy magazines are part of the overall strategy of the fashion industry, which states that “the thinner – the better.”

However, not everyone agrees. According to recent studies, women in Iran who are required to hide their figure from prying eyes, are also obsessed with weight loss, as well as their overseas sisters. The study used data obtained through interviews with Iranian female students studying in the U.S., as well as women living in Iran. It turned out that they suffer from the same problems with digestion, especially Anorexia and Bulimia. The strange thing is that women living in Iran, have cases of eating disorders because of fear of getting fat, occur more frequently. The researchers concluded that the influence of media on women’s behavior is not as great as previously thought. You can not talk about the “corrupting influence of Western civilization.” Because only a small part of the Iranian women have access to Western media. In Iran it is considered a crime. As the scientists, even those who regularly watch TV shows from the West no means guided by the examples of physical beauty that is present on the screen in their real lives. There is no connection between the desire to lose weight and viewing of specific programs. Needless to say, the results of a study of more than surprised scientists, who believed that women in the U.S. and Europe are under stronger pressure to reduce their weight, as stated in Anorexia diagnosis and treatment.

During the study, there were seized the UK fashion editors. The Government of Her Majesty urges them to limit the number of models, clearly anorexic, on glossy covers. However, it means lost profits. After a particularly heated debate with government officials editor Fiona McIntosh ELLE magazine placed on the cover of his publication Calista Flockhart photos with provocative headline.

Yasmin Alibhai Brown – is the author and host of popular programs that discuss the rights of Muslim women, said that it felt like an obsession with her weight of women in Iran – the result of severely hijab (the veil of seclusion and wear), which only exacerbate the attention of the woman to her body, and not remove it as it is commonly believed among the champions of the purity of Islam.

“No wonder, if people can not show their attraction is open, they do it secretly – said Miss Alibhai – I am familiar with many women complying with the hijab, and I can assure you they spend on makeup and clothes much longer than Western fashionista. That Asians are the main female patients in the most prestigious cosmetic clinic in Harley Street (Center of Plastic Surgery, UK). For example, in the UK over the past 40 years the number of women suffering from anorexia has tripled. Last year, the Center for eating disorders has visited more than 18 thousand people, as described in Solution to anorexia.

All in all, it can be seen that anorexia is a worldwide problem that requires urgent solutions, proper media bans and new trends. It should be noted that the majority of cases of anorexia occur when people see the magazines and the created standards that should be applied to everyone- they think. This area must be controlled by the government and this way it will be possible to control the anorexia disease.