Media's Influence On Eating Disorders
How the media affects body image and the influence it has on eating disorders.
While magazines covers, articles, and commercials promote healthy living and exercising, they also use images of thin models, who are obviously anorexic that allows children and young adults to subconsciously view skinny as beautiful and healthy. An HBO documentary, Thin, by Lauren Greenfield and the article Media Influences Affect Teenagers Resulting In Eating Disorders written by Tumblr famous blogger, who goes by the name, LisaMarie Out Loud both show and state how the media can have a detrimental effect on people with body image that leads to eating disorders.
In Thin, the plot focuses on the clients and staff at the Renfrew Center, a clinic for women battling eating disorders in Florida (Cutler & Greenfield 2006). The film follows four main characters, Brittany, Shelly, Alisa, and Polly. All four women suffer from anorexia nervosa and bulimia. Brittany, only fifteen, has …show more content…
Eating Disorders and the Role of the Media Spettigue W, Henderson K “Can Child Adolesc Psychiatr” Rev. 2004 February; 13(1): 16–19.
Heinberg L, Thompson K. “The Media’s Influence on Body Image Disturbance and Eating Disorders: We’ve Reviled Them, Now Can We Rehabilitate Them?” Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 55, No 2, 1999. 339-353. Kinnally W, Vonderen, K. “Media Effects on Body Image: Examining Media Exposure in the Broader Context of Internal and Other Social Factors” American Communication Journal. 2012 SPRING (Volume 14, Issue 2).
York C. Eating Disorders: How Social Media Helps Spread Anorexia And Bulimia In Young People, 2013.
Tetyana. Does Too Much Exposure to Thin Models Cause Eating Disorders, 2012.
Thin. Dir. Lauren Greenfield. Perf. Shelly Guillory, Pollack "Polly" Ann Williams, Brittany Robinson and Alisa Williams
While magazines covers, articles, and commercials promote healthy living and exercising, they also use images of thin models, who are obviously anorexic that allows children and young adults to subconsciously view skinny as beautiful and healthy. An HBO documentary, Thin, by Lauren Greenfield and the article Media Influences Affect Teenagers Resulting In Eating Disorders written by Tumblr famous blogger, who goes by the name, LisaMarie Out Loud both show and state how the media can have a detrimental effect on people with body image that leads to eating disorders.
In Thin, the plot focuses on the clients and staff at the Renfrew Center, a clinic for women battling eating disorders in Florida (Cutler & Greenfield 2006). The film follows four main characters, Brittany, Shelly, Alisa, and Polly. All four women suffer from anorexia nervosa and bulimia. Brittany, only fifteen, has …show more content…
Eating Disorders and the Role of the Media Spettigue W, Henderson K “Can Child Adolesc Psychiatr” Rev. 2004 February; 13(1): 16–19.
Heinberg L, Thompson K. “The Media’s Influence on Body Image Disturbance and Eating Disorders: We’ve Reviled Them, Now Can We Rehabilitate Them?” Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 55, No 2, 1999. 339-353. Kinnally W, Vonderen, K. “Media Effects on Body Image: Examining Media Exposure in the Broader Context of Internal and Other Social Factors” American Communication Journal. 2012 SPRING (Volume 14, Issue 2).
York C. Eating Disorders: How Social Media Helps Spread Anorexia And Bulimia In Young People, 2013.
Tetyana. Does Too Much Exposure to Thin Models Cause Eating Disorders, 2012.
Thin. Dir. Lauren Greenfield. Perf. Shelly Guillory, Pollack "Polly" Ann Williams, Brittany Robinson and Alisa Williams