Experimental studies featured in Lopez-Guimera's paper indicate that exposure to pictures of the thin body and beauty ideal displayed through media like magazines, television shows and commercials, increase internalization of thin ideal, and disordered eating behaviors in young women (388). ... Studies represented in the author's paper reveal that this significant association is greatly growing with the many easily accessible social media sites that are available to women in modern day society (Mabe and Keel 518). ... While is doesn't induce eating disordered behaviors in every ...

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My research will study the influence of media on eating behaviors and the significant studies regarding this topic. ... This mind-bending ability of the media has brought many arguments from different organizations in particular on the issue regarding the detrimental consequences of mass media exposure on eating disorders. ... These social media networks have gained their popularity amongst the younger generation. ... Moreover, studies further show that teenage girls who are frequent readers of magazines have a higher prevalence of dieting and exercising behaviors to lose weight compared to th...

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Many people see these models and actors in multiple forms of media and they compare their bodies to the bodies that they see in these forms of media. ... The Media's Influence.... A study done on girls in grades 5-12 showed that 69% of the girls reported that the pictures in the magazine influenced their idea of the perfect body and 47% reported wanting to lose weight because of the pictures in the magazine (Cowden). Studies have shown that the print media does affect how people view themselves and their bodies because they compare themselves to the images of models that have most likely ...

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It is quite evident by looking at these pictures of young women and men what the media considers as the "ideal" figure. ... 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 (Pipher 1995)? Although there are only a few professional studies on the issue of eating disorders and the link between the diseases and the media: the research that has been done is quite intriguing (Pipher 1995). ... Researchers feel the prevalence of eating disorders among female college studen...

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 Eating disorders have become the third most common chronic illness among the adolescent age group ranging from 10 -25 years of age, and in recent years media has become a main source of why boys and girls feel unhappy with the way they look .(364). ... Media has become a source of their confusion because they are exposed to the unrealistic idea of the perfect body and this has become a main reason for eating disorders to develop. ... The subject of media can begin to be discussed when talking about TV and how teens are constantly exposed to the "perfect body" of actors and ac...

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In "The Journal of Youth and Adolescence," Marika Tiggemann and Hayley Dohnt conducted a study and survey around April 2006. ... This study highlights that girls aged five to eight years of age are already living in a culture in which both peers and the media influence body image. ... "Conservative estimate suggest that 1 out of 100 females is anorexic and 3 out of 100 are bulimic, " as quoted from Dohnt and Tiggemann's study, "Body Image Concerns in Young Girls: The Role of Peers and Media Prior to Adolescence." ... These studies brought the phenomenon of adolescents being heavily influe...

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Factors such as familial and peer relationships, and the media have been shown to greatly influence the onset of eating disorders. ... Calorie counting, dieting, and weight watching, have become fixtures in the language of the media, thus globalizing this preoccupation with slimness (Simpson, 2002). ... Finally, in another study the role of one's family environment was addressed (Humfress et al., 1997). ... Twin studies have been used to truly evaluate the heritablity of disorders. ... Studies are difficult due to the diverse situations of patients, where no two cases are alike. ...

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The Relationship Between Mass Media, Body Image and Eating Disorders Why is it that so many women feel bad about the way they look? ... My paper presents how mass media and culture contribute to body image dissatisfaction, the drive for thinness, and the development of eating disorders. ... One study found that people who were shown slides of thin models had lower self-evaluations than people who had seen average and oversized models, and girls reported in a Body Image Survey that "very thin" models made them feel insecure about themselves. ... The average woman sees 400 to 600 advert...

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The media holds a significant influence in the desire to be thin. ... Research strongly suggests that being thin is promoted in print media. ... In a study done by Nichter, adolescent girls said that their ideal body came from fashion magazines targeted at them. ... The media should hold no power over our society; yet it does every day. The media drives our young women, and even men, in the wrong direction. ...

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Society creates a glamorized perception of ideal body types that symbolically relate to success and power through mass media. ... Subsequently young girls want to look just as "gorgeous" and as "successful" as the famous people portrayed in the media. Boys want to look just as "buff" as the power dominating male figures portrayed throughout the media (Earp, J., Jhally, S., Katz J., 2002). ... Twin based studies have suggested that inheriting an eating disorder is greater than fifty percent (Keel, P. 2003). ... Studies have found a link between poor impulse control, shoplifting and irrat...

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The easiest industry to blame for causing women to have a false perception of body image is the mass media. ... Although mass media affects society's outlook on the importance of a person's weight and body image, science suggest a more technical theory, proving that genetics can be the root of all eating disorders. Doctors have examined children in rural schools in Africa who have never seen a supermodel in the media, let alone watched a television show, and they still found a number of girls who were anorexic. ... This was the case in Bulik's study of eating disorders. ...

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Despite 15 years of media coverage of the physical and memotional ravages of eating disorders, an estimated 5 million Americans every year still battle anorexia, bulimia and related disorders. ... Absence from school or work Susceptibility to fractures Deceptive or secretive behavior Disrupted menstruation Excessive exercise Source: Adapted from the New England Journal of Medicine, April 8, 1999 Female moderate dieters (which included 60 percent of girls at the beginning of the study) were five times more likely to develop an eating disorder than nondieters and over 12 months had a 1 in 40 cha...

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