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Explain why culture is considered a possible cause of developing an eating disorder.

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Eating disorders occur most often in industrialized cultures where there is an emphasis on thinness

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Acculturation - People from racial and ethnic minority groups, especially those who are undergoing rapid Westernization, may be at increased risk for developing an eating disorder due to complex interactions between stress, acculturation, and body image. Within three years after western television was introduced to Fiji, women, previously comfortable with their bodies and eating, developed serious problems: 74% felt β€œtoo fat;” 69% dieted to lose weight; 11% used self-induced vomiting; 29% were at risk for clinical eating disorders.

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