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Eating disorders are on the rise in older women—and menopause is playing a role - Elsacat - Jul 1 2025
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/health/article/eating-disorders-women-menopause
https://archive.ph/hx8XT
Quote:Such factors coincide with a double bind that midlife women often face: cultural pressure to remain thin and youthful and an aging body that naturally shifts away from the proportions idealized in media. The pressures are so intense that research shows an overwhelming 73 percent of midlife women reporting weight dissatisfaction—making it clear these struggles are not just personal, they’re systemic.
This dynamic has only been intensified by the surge of weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and harmful diet trends promulgated on social media such as #SkinnyTok. “Asking a woman between the ages of 45 to 55 to be the size she was at 15 or 20 or even 30 is terrible advice,” says Kievit.
RE: Eating disorders are on the rise in older women—and menopause is playing a role - Tortoisemouse - Jan 30 2026
Thank you for posting this. My female friends and I are all at perimenopause stage and we all feel this pressure. In the past, it seems women were "allowed" to become matronly in middle age. Now we have to stay toned and tucked and sexually (if not reproductively) viable. When will it end? Do we still have to fuckable in our 70s? Will we be allowed to eat what we want in the afterlife?
RE: Eating disorders are on the rise in older women—and menopause is playing a role - ShameMustChangeSides - Jan 30 2026
(Jan 30 2026, 5:31 AM)Tortoisemouse Thank you for posting this. My female friends and I are all at perimenopause stage and we all feel this pressure. In the past, it seems women were "allowed" to become matronly in middle age. Now we have to stay toned and tucked and sexually (if not reproductively) viable. When will it end? Do we still have to fuckable in our 70s? Will we be allowed to eat what we want in the afterlife?
The Martha Stewart thing would suggest that yes, you still have to try to be fuckable and no, in the afterlife one must be perfect and enlightened and thus set free from the appetites of the flesh women are taught are so evil and men are encouraged to embrace.