Striving for the Perfect Body and Beauty Image
Our Society’s Quest for the Holy Grail Can Lead to Eating Disorders
Jan 12, 2007
Our society’s quest for the holy grail is now a striving for the perfect body and beauty image. This obsession, though, is often leading to eating disorders like anorexia, bulimia and binge eating.
Bo.dy Out.law- n. a person who desires to live free from confining pressures to achieve a beauty [that they didn’t imagine themselves]
In today’s world, eating disorders are getting more coverage than ever because of their high prevalence around the world. Anorexia, bulimia and binge eating are becoming a normal way of relating to food.
People’s relationship with food has become a battle of willpower, failure, determination and obsession. Millions of dollars are paid out every year to attain some sort of “perfection” in this otherwise chaotic world.
Ophira Edut’s book, "Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image," is an ode to helping people reclaim their bodies and stop striving for the perfect body and beauty image. The most recent edition has 8 new essays that are both powerful and inspiring.
Included are exposes from women and men from all different backgrounds and various shapes and sizes. The book as a whole gives the reader a well-rounded conviction that our bodies are ours and we need to honor them in order to have a truly fulfilling life.
Find the book at AMAZON.
