Media Influences with Eating Disorders.

All the signs seem to point at the media for the problems of over 5% of all women with an eating disorder, but can we jump to conclusions without taking a step back and examining the other possibilities for this? It’s a problem for more than 8 million women in the United States and takes the lives of many each year due to lack of nutrients and starving the body of necessary food. Eating disorders are both mental and physical conditions and are prone to everyone not just young women. The problem of eating disorders, are actually more common then people think. About 1 in every 100 women has some sort of an eating disorder. So can the media be the only logical answer to all these women’s problems?

The media plays a major role in all of our lives, from learning of countries across the world to showing us the current fashion that’s in style.