Originally posted by StormOf course I'm familiar with them. Tooth decay is more bulimics than anorexics. The others are cosmetic and dependant on your own body how obvious they appear.
Then you aren' t familiar with the physical symptoms of anorexia such as tooth decay, yellowed skin, lanugo, ... next to the low body weight.
Originally posted by miss_swann
Anorexia DOES make you look better.
No it doesn't! This one girl in my English class, Becca, absolutely beatutiful girl when school ended last year. We came back this year, the girl probably weighs 90 pounds and is just bones, her face is all drawn out, has no muscle mass at all, no ass, no boobs. She looks like an alien. And she still barely eats. Usually only has a salad (no dressing) for lunch....if she eats lunch.
Originally posted by miss_swann
Does anyone think it's even slightly strange that the woman who has written this book has NEVER had an ED?
Strangely enough there are scholars who can write on ethics evident in police states despite never having been an oppressive policeman themselves, or about Nazi doctrine despite not having been a Nazi themselves.
Or people who can write about surviving cancer or mental traumas despite, get this, never having been through it themselves. I think the way they do it has something to do with a thing called... research, where they look at data and evidence and personal accounts which perhaps, when coupled with human reason and empathy, allows them to have an understanding of what they are writing about.
Anorexia DOES make you look better. Bulimia on the other hand doesn't because your teeth go funny. But Bulimics purge because they don't have enough will power to starve so it's as close as they can get to anorexia.
I'd say that is wrong, what with a persons perception of beauty being a relative thing. There are people who are naturally very light, and it doesn't look bad with them , since that is their natural build and they are balanced as such.
Forcing oneself into a size your body isn't built for (or a size no body is built for) through insufficient intake of food, just on the health effects alone is far to damaging. Poor diet, or lack of diet will affect the appearance of the body beyond just the skeletal look -. I am yet to see any anorexics who prove "anorexia DOES make you look better".
Annorexia does not make you look better at all, take me for example. If I had it, I would have no stomach or musle mass, tho since I have large bones my arms and legs would still be wide, I would have broud shoulders with no muscle on them, and would just look scary. You do not look better with annorexia.
Originally posted by Violent2Dope
No it doesn't.
Well obviously I dont encourge Anorexia, but there have been people who have Anorexia and some others that have been bulimic, that have been in more control of it then others by that I mean for exsample, a guy/girl thats over wieght and used vomiting the food op to loose the wieght and then staying on a healthy level while being in perfect condition showing no bad signs which under weight would or not getting all the nessecary stuff the body needs, same gose for Anorexic people, not eating so much until they've reached a pretty damn good shape then staying that way and eating normaly/healthy after.
So in reality I think in some cases it can help alot as far as looks go.
Originally posted by miss_swann
yes. that's why I don't get this woman writing the book, to me it makes no sense.
Well lets look at it this way - just because you are does that mean you are able to write a book on it?
Does just having had something mean you are fully down with all the various studies, sciences, theories and accounts with numerous people from all over?
Originally posted by debbiejo
And to think not long ago, a few decades, it was the fuller woman that was considered more sensuous and sexy. I always thought men liked curves? But even before the few decades, it was the over weight woman that was consider sought after. Hmm
Curves yes (Monica Belluci, Salma Hayek), more chins than a Chinese phonebook, no.