Beauty and eating disorders

January 29, 2007

The health is a delicate equilibrium between the good organic operation and the harmony in the social and psychic plans of the human being.  Never this affirmation turns out to be more clear that when we attend to the eating customs of each culture and historic moment.  In spite of the fact that the medicine and the biotechnology have reached levels of beating never suspected, ours seems to be a was especially criticism to maintain a healthy equilibrium.

Beauty and consumption The culture of the consumerism imposes al present individual the need to adapt its agency to certain canons of beauty.  The man and the present woman should be small, medium, loosen or extra-loosen.  The immersed variety of physicists to be classed in only four standards?  If thus was, ¿why cost for the health?  The growing incident of eating disorders as the Bulimia and the Anorexia are an answer to that questioning one.

Undoubtedly it is the woman the most affected one by this badly cultural one.  Studies of the York University (Ontario) showed that the women that more adapt to the parameters of present beauty are those that present a more dissatisfied personality.  They are also the ones that greater incident of eating inconveniences accuse.

Beauty and thinness The ideal of female beauty of the posmodernidad is brutally thin.  Tax since the most tender infancy by the most sold wrist of the world (that whose name are you thinking), crystallizes in the image of the super-model that sell for the most powerful organizations of the fashion of the entire world.

But it is clear that to achieve and to maintain that state supposedly ideal does not only cost a terrible effort and economic resources, but can lead to numerous problems of health.  Beginning for the eating disorders, these can result in diverse social and personal plans.

It is known that a woman that loses a high percentage of lipids will have serious difficulties to be embarrassed.  Many of them will incur in difficult hormonal imbalances to re-establish.

Special diets Under the stimulus to descend of weight something can be lost more than grease.  Diets desbalanceadas and a compulsive use of gymnastics extenuantes can endanger the equilibrium between that mass grease and the lean mass (proteins, mineral, etc.)

Though the loss of lipids has shown to be useful to reduce the risk before pathologies as the diabetes, the hypertension, etc., an indiscriminate loss of corporal mass can turn out to be harmful.  The irresponsible publication of states to make thin has placed in the hands of the population, especially the female one, a weapon that can be very dangerous.

If we return al first concept of health, this is achieved with equilibrium.  And that equilibrium includes all the aspects of the human being: the organic one, the psychological one, the social one and the spiritual one.  If the present culture prioritizes the social aspect, imposing a physical image that goes against the health, is a culture of the illness.  This constitutes an authentic paradox in a was of the historic development of the humanity in which the science and the technology put in our hands privileged tools to achieve the welfare.