Critical Summary Of Cultural Effects On Eating Attitudes In Israeli

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Term Paper Title	Critical Summary Of Cultural Effects On Eating Attitudes In Israeli
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Critical Summary of Cultural Effects on Eating Attitudes in Israeli
Subpopulations and Hospitalized Anorectics

Critical Summary of Cultural Effects on Eating Attitudes in Israeli
Subpopulations and Hospitalized Anorectics

        In the article "Cultural Effects on Eating Attitudes in Israeli
Subpopulations and Hospitalized Anorectics (Apter Et Al, 1994), the authors
introduce to us their thesis: due to the clashing values between the western
ideology of the teenage feminine body and the traditional Israeli subpopulation
views, there is an increasing amount of anorexia nervosa proportionate to the
severity of the western influence.  To test their hypothesis, Apter surveyed
adolescent Israeli girls in 10 subpopulations of Israeli culture.  Throughout
the rest of the article, Apter goes on to prove their thesis by illustrating to
us the method they instantiated as well as the results they attained from
conducting the survey.
        Apter explains to us that anorexia nervosa is a severe eating disorder
that affects mostly upper & middle class teenage girls in the western world.
This disease is both physically and psychologically damaging to these girls.
For these girls, thinness and self-appearance is what they revolve their lives
around.  Studies conclude that people in professions where physical appearance
is of extreme importance are more likely to develop an eating disorder.  In the
Western world, over the past two decades eating disorders have increased
substantially.  People believe that this increase in eating disorders is due to
the fashion industry.  The fashionable female figure of today has become thinner
and more tubular (Szmulker, McCance, McCrone, & Hunter, 1986).
        In the world today, Apter believes that thinness is more and more a
symbol of the feminine ideal.  He finds that the Western role of a woman is now
beginning to include success in the work force, sexually attractive as well as
the traditional roles as nurturant wives and mothers.  Apter hypothesizes that
this added stress of Western ideology combined with the non-Western ethnic
origin of these adolescents could create complications such that the attitudes
towards food will begin to resemble that of anorectics.  In contrast, Apter also
hypothesizes that adolescents of non-Western ethnic origin less exposed to
Western ideology would have less of a chance of attaining an eating disorder.
Using a selected group of hospitalized anorectics as a control, they tested
their hypothes...

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