eating disorders in America

For my market place of ideas in my Issues in America class my project was on eating disorders. The information I found was crazy. I was completely shocked by what I found. America has the highest death rates due to eating disorders than anywhere else.  That blew my mind. Many places like Great Britain and Australia only had 2 deaths a year from eating disorders and America had death rates in the hundreds. How can America be known for being obese yet have so many people dying from eating disorders. Only 1 in every 10 people with eating disorders get help. The saddest result I found was that for women between the ages of 14-25 the leading cause of death is eating disorders. That’s crazy! America is a country of extremist. If we have these numbers why isn’t anything being done to fix it? We clearly need help. During my research I visited a “proana” website. That website scared the shit out of me. It was filled with skeletons sending these nasty skinny pictures of themselves and other people commenting on them telling them to “ keep up the good work!” and “you can lose more!” these girls look half dead. How can they possibly see themselves and being attractive when they’re that skinny. The website had these sick commands and tips for losing more weight. They talked about how being sick=life and fat = death. What they don’t understand is that being too skinny OR too fat = death. Why do they have to take it to such extremes? These people need help. I hope these results change soon.