Overeating: Guide to Understanding, Overcoming and Preventing Eating Disorders, Body Image Problems

by Philip Johnson

Everyone has a part of their body that they do not love and this is perfectly normal. The problem comes in when someone becomes obsessed with their physical appearance to the point that it is the primary focus of their life. It is very easy to become obsessed with your looks and your physical appearance because American culture is heavily focused on it. The media presents heavily touched up models and celebrities and delivers them as the ideal body type. Of course, these beauty standards are impossible to achieve, but the pressure to try and achieve it can trigger eating disorders and body image issues in both men and women of all ages.

43 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 15, 2016

About the author

Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an influential American architect.
In 1930, he founded the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In 1978 he was awarded an American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and in 1979 the first Pritzker Architecture Prize. He was a student at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Johnson was gay, and has been called "the best-known openly gay architect in America." In 1961 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member and became a full Academician in 1963.