What part does the Media play in Eating Disorders?

            

              Media Influence is huge on everyday life of young adults and teens, this article talks about its influence in life and they persuade you with facts and statistics and a poem that tells you about the beginning of it and how it can end. There purpose is to show statistics and facts that document how obsessed we are with the pursuit of thinness. The main idea is to persuade readers to refrain from trying to look like the people that are on T.V. because they are a bad influence and you should not follow them. This article doesn’t have any conflicting evidence, but it is bias towards not trying to look like the media stars. They tell you about where they get their stats/facts. They show you stats on what dieting, your idea of you body, models from before to now, what television and movies do and last they have written advice on how to prevent someone from letting media influence their lives. In their section on dieting they show what the media does to both men and women through dieting. For your body image they explain about self-esteem and more statistics and facts. When they talk about the models they show you the progress of this disease that slowly has started to take a larger toll on models than before. They talk about T.V. and movies influence on people that later become obsessed with being like a model or being thin. The help is what they are trying to persuade readers to follow because after all of the facts and statistics of what the media does their help is there. This source is accurate