Eating disorders and the Media
It almost everywhere you look. Pictures running rampid on magazine covers,advertisements, billboards: everywhere. Standing in the line at the grocery store, flipping through a magazine, or just glancing at the advertisements on television. It is quite evident by looking at the emaciated pictures of young women and surprisingly men too, what the media considers as the "ideal" figure. This perception society has created, plays a major part in our countries obsession with thinness and extreme dieting. America's obsession with health and diets and the fashion industry and television exhibiting waif thin models as "sexy and voluptuous", gives a distorted notion sending many young women the wrong idea about body image. In today's society these eating problems, such as anorexia and bulimia, are becoming all too common. Yet, the question still remains, what are the causes and factors contributing to this destructive behavior, and what kind of impact is the media contributing to these problems? Although there are only a few quantitative studies on the issue of eating disorders and the link between the diseases and the media: the research that has been done is quite informative and interesting. Hopefully though, in time
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Approximate Word count = 2172
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)
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