Exploring body consciousness of the young adult

The year 2000 marks an age of downsizing, where everything seems to be getting smaller: cell phones that easily slide into the pockets of a tight pair of jeans, laptop computers, electronic address books that fit into the palm of one's hand, and even people. According to the 1999 edition of the book Understanding Nutrition, "An estimated 2 million people in the United States, primarily girls and young women, suffer from the eating disorders anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa... and many more suffer from unspecified eating disorders - conditions that do not meet the strict criteria for anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa, but still imperil a person's well being."