Anorexia

The nervous anorexia, according to experts, can be considered as an alteration by defect of the habits and behaviors involved with the alimentation. The persons who suffer this disorder dedicate most of there time to topics related with food. The constant concern of food and the fear of gaining weight are the principal elements of this disorder, along with the personal insecurity to affront this problem. They deny the disease and consider them selves fat in any parte of their body´s despite of presenting an esqueletic figure. There could be some problems such as menstrual irregularities and later on amenorrhea or impotence in men.

From a sociological point of view, anorexia is a trendy disease that appears since the 80´s as a phenomenon of modernity, but in the 90´s it is spread to the rest of the world thanks to the globalization. The tendency is generated by the mass media and publicity, where beauty is sold as a model of thinness under a cultural image imposed by brands like Barbie’s which created a social-cultural change in peoples conceptions of beauty, not considering that this bodies are biologically impossible to accomplish.

I decided to write this essay about anorexia because I personally suffered with this disorder. I was 14 years old, in an age where we seek for social approval, especially of those who are youngest. My childhood was filled with insecurities, maybe this triggered such an auto destructive behavior in me, making me obsessed with having a more thinner body, when I didn’t really have any extra weight. This obsession got to the extreme where I would constantly look in the mirror and weight myself every day, I even use to frequently measure my body with a meter; by the time when I was really sick I was weighting 80 pounds being 5 feet tall and my waist measured 58 cm, the bones of my face stuck out and my skin color was a shade of paled yellow. Doing this investigation I noticed that most of the people that suffer this eating disorder tend to have very strict personalities, for example, they feel guilt when they eat because they think they failed them selves, they push their body´s to the limit “no pain no gain” the more your mussels hurt the more proud you get.

In these days, I don’t understand why I went through this faze, why I became so sick or ended up hurting myself; the more I analyze, I realize its not completely my fault, I’m just another victim of a system that plays with our minds to achieve merely consumerists gold’s. In order to overcome this illness, I had to understand, that I am worth more then my exterior, and that being beautiful doesn’t mean portraying an unhealthy image, we should dig in our inside, and find our virtues and learn to love them, only then, we could race awareness about the cultural manipulations and stop being a victim of a superficial system.

Obama won't defeat the deficit

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's $3.8 trillion budget for next year sets deficit record of $1.56 trillion, includes a big job program and rolls back Bush-era tax cuts for high earners.

But Obama sidestepped any major attack on chronic deficits, which not drop below $700 billion even after a recovery.

The job package includes not only the $100 billion collection of tax cuts for small business and other items to spur hiring, but also a continuation of unemployment insurance, aid to fiscally strapped states and other measures that were set to expire this year, totaling about $250 billion.

Total tax revenue would rise to $2.2 trillion, including rolling back the Bush tax cuts on those earning $250,000 a year or more and ending a welter of corporate tax breaks. Republicans, swiftly slammed the plan.

"The president has sent Congress a budget proposal that contains more spending, more borrowing and more taxes," Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said in a statement. "This, after promising the American people that he was going to restore fiscal discipline to Washington by going through the budget to cut wasteful spending."

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, echoed Cornyn's concerns, adding in a statement that the proposal "includes massive deficit spending levels and tax increases, which will make it even more difficult for businesses, large and small, to create jobs to fuel our economic recovery."

Democrats welcomed the boost in their key priorities such as science, infrastructure, clean energy and education, investments Obama describes as building a "new foundation" for the economy.

The president defended his priorities, saying, "Just as it would be a terrible mistake to borrow against our children's future to pay our way today, it would be equally wrong to neglect their future by failing to invest in areas that will determine our economic success in this new century."