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Anorexia Nervosa and Media Influence.

Girls are given the message at a very young age that in order to be beautiful they must be thin. Our society today places much value on being thin so it’s not surprising that eating disorders are on the increase. If you think about it, every time you walk into a store, you are surrounded by the images of thin models and celebrities that appear on the covers of magazines. Once opened up you see pages filled with these thin beauties and adds promoting diets, workouts, and fashions for them. What you also see is celebrities or people who are slightly over weight having their flaws pointed out or being ridiculed in the magazine for being overweight or “not in shape.” Thousands of teenage girls read these magazines and look up to the people they see inside. In part, as a result they are starving themselves daily in an effort to attain what the fashion industry considers to be the perfect figure.
The average model weighs 23% less than......

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