Monday, June 13, 2011

Is The Media Affecting Teens to Much?


Teenage girls are not only pressured by magazines to dress like celebrities, but the magazines and media have a big influence on the ways girls physically look. When a very skinny beautiful girl is on the cover of a teens favorite magazine, they will do whatever it takes to look just like them. This is causing many eating disorders amongst teenage girls, such as  bulimia and anorexia, which is changing their lifestyles. According to the article Teen Magazines Send Girls All The Wrong Messages, "Magazines, not television, seem to have the strongest relationship to eating disorders." and "Researchers explain that because television encourages the consumption of high-fat foods, the effect toward eating disorders is minimized. On the other hand, magazines offer more instruction on dieting and therefore seem to be more significantly correlated to eating disorders." Since so many magazines influence dieting, they are causing eating disorders. Also in the article, How the Media Affects Teen Girls, they say "According to the National Eating Disorders Associations, 51% of 9 and 10-year-old girls feel better about themselves when on a diet." Many people agree that eating disorders have become so popular because of the media and fashion magazines. All the girls in the media and magazines are told or forced to be skinny which has an influence to other girls making them want to be skinny like them as well.

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