The Increase in the Incidence of Eating Disorders Such as Anorexia

question 8

Multiple Choice

The increase in the incidence of eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa has been referred to as a "collision between our culture and our physiology." The most accurate interpretation of this statement is that

• A) people have become too dependent on media determinations of beauty.
• B) media standards of beauty are increasingly unattainable for the average woman.
• C) dieting has become a fad that has been taken to an extreme.
• D) society has no business telling us how to define beauty.

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