body image

It seems that every women is subject to having a distorted relationship or view of food. The extremes of this distortion are illustrated by eating disorders. Even if a person's eating behaviors do not meet diagnostic criteria for an eating disorder, they may have continuous struggle with food. When talking about different body types and eating disorders two body types are brought up the overweight and  underweight. Someone who is overweight or underweight may have perfectly healthy relationship with food. It is the people who look "normal" that may be struggling with food the most. The boy you sit next to in class who is always put together or the slender girl in yoga pants that you may think is the epitome of health. Everyone struggles with body image, food, ect. It is important to note that body appearance may not be the best indicator and it may be better to only look at body image as a contributing piece. I think that we should look more in depth at self perceptions and the cognitive processes and whether or not they are healthy and positive.