Media plays a big role on the lives of most people.
This is apparent in the media’s influence on eating disorders.
Many do not believe in media’s influence on eating disorders but this influence is very real and should be corrected.
Media may not be directly to blame for all the eating disorders in the world but spawning these in the minds of the many people who watch, listen or read any media source can be.
This is not to say that all individuals can be under media’s influence on eating disorders.
There are people who are more susceptible to this than others. Since anorexia can be attributed to some psychiatric issue that affects the person’s views of himself and eating, the model or ideal set by media can affect an individual susceptible to this.
Since media is so easy to access, there should be more care when exposing impressionable children to it. To avoid media’s influence on eating disorders, parents should be aware of what their children are watching and also supervise or guide them through it.
Role Models
One of the most apparent media’s influences on eating disorders is the way that actors, actresses, models and other celebrities are depicted.
The promotion of these celebrities as ideal in their thinness can be detrimental to the state of mind of many teens and young adults who feel they need to follow their examples.
Media’s influence on eating disorders is so apparent in fashion when the models are so thin that their bones are practically sticking out of them but they are praised as ideal or perfect.
Celebrities who are too thin but are being praised as beautiful or sexy can eventually appear as the perfect body model for youngsters.
What the television, movies and newspapers are showing off as perfect are actually not the majority of the people on earth.
Media’s influence on eating disorders should not be encouraged to prevent any more eating disorders from occurring in young people who are more impressionable than others.
The constant exposure to what media moguls think of as perfect will encourage gullible and susceptible people to lose weight and question their physical state.
There may be times that media’s influence on eating disorders may appear a god send, especially for obese people but there is such a thing as too much of a good thing.
Parents who worry about media’s influence on eating disorders should be wary of exposing their child to too much media sources.
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