1. The Obsessive Media - Causing Eating Disorders
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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