Media, Body Image, and Eating Disorders

Now, if you do not see a magazine on a cover with a young slim model, it is almost impossible to enter the store. Looking at the page, there are more pictures of young, beautiful women. Each picture is sprayed perfectly. It is difficult to start thinking by looking at the model. "Why can not I be as beautiful as she is?" Many women suffered from physical image and self-esteem since elementary school. Indeed, in a survey of 5th grade students, a 10 year old girl and a boy told the researcher that he was dissatisfied with his body after seeing Britney Spears' music video or t clip. .

According to a paper on media, body images, eating disorders of the National Dietary Association, more than 70% of articles on weight loss in youth magazines claim that attractiveness is the reason for weight loss. The association also pointed out that at least one for each of the four advertisements sent information on the attraction. According to the report of the British Medical Association (BMA) on the influence of the media, no investigation has been done to confirm the influence of media on young people, but the media helps guide young people's way of thinking. As a result of their study, BMA requires media and advertisers to begin drawing real images of women to help prevent eating disorders and other effects on adolescents.

Media and body image problems are important for eating disorders and other diseases related to the body image. Of course, not everyone with an eating disorder is adversely affected by the media, and the media may not be the only reason for someone's eating disorder. However, it is usually a contributing factor. As mentioned above, the unrealistic image we see in the media may contribute to the development of eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Anorexic people restrict calories. They may actually be very thin, but many people do this because they think they are overweight. People may be anorexia for other reasons; for example, some people control their food intake as a way to maintain some degree of control over life, it seems uncontrollable. However, distortion of the body is a common factor in anorexia patients

The most common eating disorders are anorexia and bulimia (commonly referred to as "anorexia" and "bulimia"). However, other food-related diseases such as avoided / restricted food intake disorders, overeating, physical image disorder and food phobia are becoming more common. People with anorexia are really worried about the weight gain and distorted view on the size and shape of the body. As a result, they rarely eat and may become dangerously underweight. Many adolescents with anorexia limit their food intake by diet, fasting or excessive exercise. They hardly have food - they eat a small amount of food or try to eat as little as possible to become a calorie calculation.