Just like what I am mention in the previous journal, I am interested in anorexia. I wonder that why people in this world will suffer from a disease which is not want to eat anything. Sometimes I even think that it is a reckless waste of grain, because so many people in the world want to eat but there is no enough food for them. Both types of people die eventually, but sarcastically, one is because of anorexia and one is starvation. And now, because of the project of Freshman English, our group has the chance to understand anorexia. We focus on the children anorexia, that is children aged before twelve. I am in charge of the news. So I found much news, being surprised that children anorexia is a totally important issue.
For example, the first news I found is titled anorexia begins at five. The case is from Eating Disorders Foundation in Australian and New Zealand on 2006. Among their patients, the youngest was a five-year-old boy. The child had been teased in preschool and was about to start kindergarten. So he believe that if he went to school he could not be fat because he would be teased worse, that’s unbelievable. The second one is happens in Taiwan. The news is from China Post on 2006 but the case is in Taiwan. A ten-year-old girl, that is only fifth grades in elementary school, is engaged in a weight-reducing competition with her classmates. Actually the girl does not look fat before she began to go on a diet. But, because of peer pressure, she ate less and less. Finally she got anorexia.
And we should even pay more attention on the causes of children anorexia. The news told us that we should not ignore children anorexia anymore because the youngest anorexic in Taiwan is 7 years old, according another news on 2009. Among the first two pieces of news, there is a same reason – peer pressure – which leads to the children anorexia. Why peer pressures also have the strong power to make an innocent child suffer from anorexia. I begin trying to recall that before I entering junior high school, the most influence people should be my parents and teachers. So the causes from family and media are reasonable. But why are peers? Why peers are so important that it can influence children refusing to eat?
In our presentation, our group is going to tell everyone what peer pressure is, why it is so important, and how to defeat peer pressure. But then I come up with another question – what causes peer pressure become so influence that it can make children suffered from anorexia? I mean, in my generation, or in any generation, peer pressure is everywhere. But it is not until recently that peer pressure can cause eating disorders. Is that because our value changes which indirectly cause the value of children, or because we do not care our parents as much as before? Anyway, there are always unsolvable questions in the reality.
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