ANOREXIC BOYS??

Anorexia is described as an eating disorder characterized by excessive weight loss, irrational fears of gaining weight, and a distorted body perception. Anorexic people limit the amount of food they intake which leads to metabolic hormone disorders. Through media and social perception it is believed that teenage girls are the most susceptible to this disease, however American society does not realize, due to increasing societal changes, young men are also becoming susceptible to it.

An article published in 2008 stated how men felt exceedingly pressured to look good due to the perception of male beauty in the media. It stated how a doctor believed the ideal body image had changed to an unhealthy shape. The doctor also stated, ""It’s completely unhealthy, and to achieve that sort of shape you’ve got to be either working out for hours in a gym, making yourself sick, or taking certain kinds of illegal drugs."

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Thus society has put an enormous amount of pressure on both girls and boys to conform to the new ideal "beauty," which in some cases may even cause one to take to drastic measures such as becoming anorexic or forming another unhealthy disorder. 

http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1553276/young_men_increasingly_affected_by_eating_disorders/