Informal writing 1st/2nd person
Anorexia and eating disorders in my opinion is a big part of todays culture, over 160,000 people suffer from disorders like this every year. I think this is caused by magazines, models, seeing images on the internet which are all photo shopped to improve there looks, when in reality its not natural or healthy! People in my eyes will be self conscious about they way they look by all the dieting that is shown all over the front of magazines and even on the TV, after christmas there is quotes on magazines that say 'pigged out over christmas' or new diet plans that are shoved in people's faces. For example I saw a lot of dieting adverts on TV just in the middle of shows that weren't relevant to anything to do with food, such as 'diet chef' where they deliver the food right to your door. Do you agree that dieting is overly exaggerated? All this is a bad influence on people and the way they feel about there self, people always want to have the 'perfect' body and will go to extreme measures to achieve it. Even from a child children are playing with Barbie dolls that where claimed to have the 'perfect' body, but if they where real they would be underweight and most likely extremely ill. Whats your opinion on anorexia?
Writing in the Third person
There is a 13% increase in the number of eating disorders between the years of 2003 and 2009. Research shows that the highest rate of cases for anorexia is in girls aged between 15 to 19 and boys between 10 and 14. Eating disorders are one of the most common new mental health problems that are affecting teenage girls in todays society. Experts are saying that the younger generation has increasing pressure to look and be 'perfect' which is effecting the health of the whole generation. Also around about 50% of people with eating disorders meet the criteria of depression. Eating disorders/anorexia usually show around the teenage years but can develop later in life.
