anorexia and its opposite..

There's been a lot of noise in the UK press about thin models and BMI index during the ongoing London Fashion Week. Anorexia remains a serious problem in the West, which can even lead to death in serious cases. In Nigeria, there's little danger of girls worrying that they look fatter than they are; rather, the opposite clinical condition bigarexia tends to hold: girls worry that they look thinner than they actually are. This probably leads to its own forms of eating disorders - girls gorging on carbs, eba etc in the hope that they will gain weight. It just goes to show that confidence in one's body-image is almost wholly determined by social context.