The Influence of Media on Eating Disorder in Teens

The Influence of Media on Eating Disorder in Teens

Introduction

A large number of researchers have hypothesized that media had a pivotal role in creating and strengthening the phenomenon about body dissatisfaction and therefore is partly responsible as it leads towards growth in eating disorders.

Discussion

Media plays a key part in our culture.  The children and adolescent nowadays grow in a world where one cannot escape mass media (Abraham, 2008) .The media surrounds us in the form of television, radio, newspaper, billboards, films, magazines and Internet. Statistics have revealed that a child or an adolescent watches on ...