Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Media's Affect on
Eating Disorders
- What is the problem?
- The media exposes young girls and teenagers to an ideal body image
that can make teenagers feel dissatisfied with their own bodies. This
can lead to eating disorders.
- What factors are causing this?
- Media gives an idea body
type that is almost
impossible to obtain for
most teenagers
- teenagers are trying to meet the ideal
- Teenagers are are spending so much time on the internet and
watching TV that they are exposed to a large amount of
advertisements
- Models are getting
skinnier and skinner
- Since media is constantly surrounding us, there is the constant
need to lose weight as the victims of the eating disorder are
always seeing the people who are skinnier than them
- Always seeing what is better than them (in their eyes)
- Impacts
- Individually
- Teenagers who restrict what they
eat can harm their bodies
- Will not be functioning
properly (need food to function)
- Society
- Other teens will see their
peers weight loss, gives them
the idea of restricting the food
they intake
- Families and Friends
- Eating disorders are serious and people who have
eating disorders need treatment
- Family and friends need to be supportive and
helpful when the person with the eating disorder is
getting better
- Sociology
- Groups of people all seek to meet the ideal body image
- Compare their weight loss
results to the others involved
in this
- Since many groups of teenage girls want to lose
weight, they do it together
- Encourage each other that it is
okay even though it is not
- Psychology
- Individual mental process
- Why are they choosing to do this?
- How can we stop this?
- Media can give us accurate
representations of normal looking
and healthy body types.
- We can teach teenagers what a healthy
body is like
- The media can begin to use models that are an average
height and weight to accurately display what a healthy
body looks like
- Be accepting of all body types
- Encourage healthy eating instead of
encouraging teens to lose weight
- Statistics
- 50% of girls and 30% of boys resort to
skipping meals and starving themselves in
order to chanage and control their weight
- 91% of girls interviewed at college had tried to restrict
their eating before
- The average model weighs about 120 pounds
- Thesis
- Teenagers who are exposed to large amounts of
media resort to restricting their eating in order to
meet the ideal weight and body image that the media
provides us with.
- Conclusion
- If we want the number of teens who have eating disorders to
decrease, we must encourage healthy eating, and the media
needs to represent products using models who are a healthy
weight to represent healthy lifestyles. The media needs to
encourage that beauty can come in many shapes and sizes.
- Thesis was proven