Professionals recommend that women with eating disorders do their best to resolve the eating disorder related weight and behavior problems before they attempt to get pregnant. However, since this is sometimes easier said than done, getting information and advice about pregnancy and eating disorders is a great first step.
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Cosmetics and Body Image
The cosmetics industry thrives by convincing women that certain products will make them appear thinner, younger (for aging women), more natural, older (for some teens) and ultimately, more beautiful. Though it would seem logical for every woman to question these tactics as insincere attempts to gain a profit; women are programmed from a very young age to think that makeup equates to beauty. Continue reading ‘Cosmetics and Body Image’
If you are like most women reading women’s magazines today, you get overwhelmed by the amount of advertisements for diet fads, foods that will help you count carbs, low-fat foods and recipes and products to cleanse or purge the system of impurities. The current obsession with perfecting our bodies has become all-consuming for many consumers and very profitable for many small corporations and big companies. Continue reading ‘Body Image and the Modern Diet’