While eating disorders are known to be more prevalent among certain industries and professions including modeling, acting, and athletics to name a few, many of us tend to think of disordered eating as a problem largely seen in North America, where the media, in both print and television, often equate beauty with being thin. However, in the article "Argentine City Takes Beauty Off Its Pedestal", we are reminded that eating disorders including anorexia and bulimia, as well as other harmful behaviours designed to achieve the perfect ideal of beauty, do exist in continents and countries other than our own.
Specifically, this article highlights how prevalent eating disorders are in Argentina, and how many feel local beauty pageants are to blame for perpetuating the problem. As a result, Chivilcoy, a city in the province of Buenos Aires, has banned their municipal beauty pageant and plan to replace it with an award based on community service work rather than one's physical looks.
"Argentina’s obsession with certain standards of female beauty has contributed to some of the world’s highest rates of eating disorders among women. Attention to female beauty is so prevalent here that a former Miss Argentina trying to maintain her youthful appearance recently died of complications from plastic surgery intended to make her buttocks firmer."
Specifically, this article highlights how prevalent eating disorders are in Argentina, and how many feel local beauty pageants are to blame for perpetuating the problem. As a result, Chivilcoy, a city in the province of Buenos Aires, has banned their municipal beauty pageant and plan to replace it with an award based on community service work rather than one's physical looks.
"Argentina’s obsession with certain standards of female beauty has contributed to some of the world’s highest rates of eating disorders among women. Attention to female beauty is so prevalent here that a former Miss Argentina trying to maintain her youthful appearance recently died of complications from plastic surgery intended to make her buttocks firmer."
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