One study of girls without eating disorders reported that before puberty, girls ate quantities of food appropriate to their body weight, were satisfied with their bodies, and depression increased with lower food intake. After puberty, girls ate about three-quarters of the recommended calorie intake, had a poorer body self-image, and depression increased with higher food intake. New research suggests that girls as young as ten years old associate being teased or socially victimized by peers with being ugly or fat regardless of their actual physical characteristics. Such poor body images can often lead to eating disorders. It is not surprising, then, that there is a greater risk for bulimia and other emotional disorders in girls who undergo early puberty, when the pressures experienced by all adolescents are intensified further by anxiety-provoking attention on their early changing bodies.
Models and sports athlete being adulationed, making people feel worse about themselves and more vulernable. Our society today has gone astray from the thinking of Socrates and Plato. Beauty is only skin deep, and pernicious steps are being taken to achive this. The majority youth. Teens and children are being taught that beauty is all and thin is beauty. They are develpoing ailments that are harmful and eventually fatal.