equation. There are many times when a group of friends are sitting around watching their favorite sitcom on Thursday nights, they are all again exposed to a group of beautiful people whom act as the leading characters. The women observing the show take mental notes on the latest fashion techniques, body types shown off by the gorgeous groups of women on Friends and Ally McBeal. The next few weeks one of the women will notice a change in their friends eating behaviors. By observing these trends of their friends, women often turn to their own social group when looking for the perfect accepting look. Most groups of friends are very competitive especially when it comes to weight loss. Women tend to use weight loss as a game. They see who can loose the greatest amount in the fastest time. What seems to be an innocent trend between friends can often result in dangerous eating disorders. Which lastly brings us to another cause of eating disorder. This occurs throughout many women athletes, especially at the collegiate and professional level, whom need to maintain the perfect body to perform to their greatest ability. Many of these athletes turn to weight loss supplements which allow them to loose the excess weight much faster than shedding the unwanted pounds by naturally exercising. Athletes also turn to these unnatural supplements. While athletes participate in the consumption of these supplements, they do not realize at the time that they could be very harmful to their body and also lead to many other eating disorders. Once they begin to lose weight by taking the supplements, they will want to lose even more weight. Eventually, these athletes will not even realize how much weight they have actually loss. Their entire purpose of losing weight, which was to enhance their athletic performance, is now pointless. An eating disorder is now formed which weakens their bodies causing the total opposite results of what they intended .In the end, ...
