In recent history, the idea of feminine beauty has been shifting toward a less healthy, overly thin model. More than 25,000 years ago when humans first evolved, women exaggerated their reproductive organs, like breasts and hips, using fertility symbols. Slim women were not considered beautiful becau...

For an anorexic dieting has become an obsession and the obsession has become a disease. Anorexia Nervosa is a puzzling and cruel disease affecting thousands and thousands of young and healthy women and adolescents (Bruch 3). Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by the pursuit of th...

A flat, lean stomach, with defined, toned muscles, flawless, tanned skin, and a body fat percentage less than an average preschooler's age. Sounds like a familiar description of any given model in Cosmo, Mademoiselle, or Glamour. But in today's society, this description now applies to any Men's He...