The document discusses bulimia, an eating disorder characterized by binge eating followed by purging. It summarizes how the song "Orange Juice" by Melanie Martinez depicts behaviors associated with bulimia such as eating oranges yet inducing vomiting. Many young people identify with the song and its portrayal of disordered eating behaviors driven by a fear of weight gain and not meeting societal ideals. The behaviors described in the song reflect a serious disease experienced by many adolescents. Preventative measures discussed include educational programs to increase awareness of eating disorders and promote a healthier body image, as well as restricting advertisements that promote unrealistic body standards.
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Análisis de una problemática en base a una canción de la cantante melanie martinez.
The document discusses bulimia, an eating disorder characterized by binge eating followed by purging. It summarizes how the song "Orange Juice" by Melanie Martinez depicts behaviors associated with bulimia such as eating oranges yet inducing vomiting. Many young people identify with the song and its portrayal of disordered eating behaviors driven by a fear of weight gain and not meeting societal ideals. The behaviors described in the song reflect a serious disease experienced by many adolescents. Preventative measures discussed include educational programs to increase awareness of eating disorders and promote a healthier body image, as well as restricting advertisements that promote unrealistic body standards.
The document discusses bulimia, an eating disorder characterized by binge eating followed by purging. It summarizes how the song "Orange Juice" by Melanie Martinez depicts behaviors associated with bulimia such as eating oranges yet inducing vomiting. Many young people identify with the song and its portrayal of disordered eating behaviors driven by a fear of weight gain and not meeting societal ideals. The behaviors described in the song reflect a serious disease experienced by many adolescents. Preventative measures discussed include educational programs to increase awareness of eating disorders and promote a healthier body image, as well as restricting advertisements that promote unrealistic body standards.
Down your throat a dozen times or near” Thus begins the song called orange juice by Melanie Martinez part of the album K12 where several controversial issues and social problems are treated, in this song we can see reflected an TCA specifically bulimia and the behavior of provoking vomiting reptiles times.
Currently it is happening that thousands of young people are feeling
identified with this song, eating disorders they are a mental illness that is characterized by different behaviors with food and physical, for example fear of eating, excessive exercise provocation of vomiting and other related actions, the song deals with bulimia and briefly tells how the disease is going and its video exemplifies some of these behaviors, for example eating little and in this case only oranges which is a "healthy" food and low calorie but still in the video you can see as Fleur character from the movie k12 where the album's songs are included, she vomits for fear of gaining weight and not meeting stereotypes, this type of behavior is suffered by several adolescents who are involved in this difficult disease which often goes unnoticed, this is happening worldwide, in adolescent schools they vomit what they eat and in their homes and they say to see food too much, avoiding eating more, at parties they do not eat or avoid going out, the festivities are complicated and end up vomiting everything ingested in the day or at the same time.
This type of behavior is mostly encouraged by society where
extremely thin models are seen in commercials as the ideal, by comments in social or television environments where it is understood that the most beautiful people are thin and in commercials where products are promoted to lose weight quickly and thus have a "perfect body" or be able to look good in certain types of clothing.
From a clinical perspective, one way to prevent this type of
disorders is to start implementing educational plans where this type of diseases are taught and talked about so that they do not go unnoticed, besides teaching young children that there is no perfect body, that eating correctly is different in each person, that these actions such as provoking oneself are extremely dangerous and can cause stomach or dental problems due to the acid of vomit, besides the psychological discomfort, another way would also be to prohibit commercials that encourage stereotypes of a supposed ideal body.