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fear motivates anorexia, or anorexia cause fear?
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Many factors of society are at times credited with causing the number of eating disorders to increase. For example, the [[media]] perception of larger-than-average bodies as 'too fat', or something that must be changed via dieting, can contribute to many having an unhealthy body image. Also, some have cited society's pressure on women to be thin and desirable, and on men to be large and muscular, as something that can enhance eating disorders.
 
Many factors of society are at times credited with causing the number of eating disorders to increase. For example, the [[media]] perception of larger-than-average bodies as 'too fat', or something that must be changed via dieting, can contribute to many having an unhealthy body image. Also, some have cited society's pressure on women to be thin and desirable, and on men to be large and muscular, as something that can enhance eating disorders.
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==Circular reasoning==
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Many sources speak of the condition as if it caused itself. Anorexia is a syndrome in which a person chooses to starve themselves, out of an exaggerated fear of gaining weight. The National Women's Health Information Center, a federally sponsored program, claims that anorexia ''causes this fear''. [http://www.4women.gov/faq/easyread/anorexia-etr.htm]
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