Critical Summary of Cultural Effects on Eating Attitudes in Israeli Subpopulations and Hospitalized Anorectics
Title: Critical Summary of Cultural Effects on Eating Attitudes in Israeli Subpopulations and Hospitalized Anorectics
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Details: Words: 764 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Critical Summary of Cultural Effects on Eating Attitudes in Israeli Subpopulations and Hospitalized Anorectics
Category: /Recreation & Sports/Health Care
Details: Words: 764 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
In the article 'Cultural Effects on Eating Attitudes in Israeli Subpopulations and Hospitalized Anorectics (Apter Et Al, 1994), the authors introduce to us their thesis: due to the clashing values between the western ideology of the teenage feminine body and the traditional Israeli subpopulation views, there is an increasing amount of anorexia nervosa proportionate to the severity of the western influence. To test their hypothesis, Apter surveyed adolescent Israeli girls in 10 subpopulations of Israeli culture. Throughout
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take into account the amount of Western influence in each subculture. To make the proof of their hypothesis more complete, Apter et Al should have conducted some sort of test or survey that would tell how much Western influence was present in each subculture.
If Apter et Al would have taken the amount of Western influence into account in their proof of their hypothesis, I feel that it would have made their hypothesis more concrete.