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Okay, so we all want to hear how Calvin Klein is the culprit and that the emaciated waif look has caused women to tale-spin into the world of Eating Disorders. While the images of child-like women has obviously contributed to an increased obsession to be thin, and we can't deny the media influence on eating disorders, there's a lot more to it than that.

Images on T.V. spend countless hours telling us to lose weight, be thin and beautiful, buy more stuff because people will like us and we'll be better people for it. Programming on the tube rarely depicts men and women with "average" body-types or crappy clothes, ingraining in the back of all our minds that this is the type of life we want. O

characters are typically portrayed as lazy

he top shows watched by female college students: Gossip Girl, Project Runway, and America’s Next Top Model. Likewise for magazines: Vogue, Seventeen, and Allure.

The media I’ve listed contribute to shaping what society considers beauty. The common denominators are tall, desperately skinny women who look fabulous. It should come as no surprise the media is to blame for today’s artificial standard of beauty.

The constant bombardment of skinny models and diet plans will certainly have an effect on women whose bodies are just not meant to be that small.

North American girl will watch 5,000 hours of television, including 80,000 ads, before she starts kindergarten.

When the media is constantly bombarding children and teens alike with messages about the "ideal" or "perfect" beauty, and uses underweight movie stars, singers, etc- then it's not hard to ask the question "Does the media influence Anorexia on teenagers?"

Instead of blaming themselves, the media and others- it's im

portant to remember that some teenagers are more susceptible to eating disorders than others, and some are going to develop Anorexia or another eating disorder with or without outside influences such as media or peers.

Advertisers often emphasize

he importance of physical attractiveness in an attempt to sell products

In recent survey by Teen People magazine, 27% of the girls felt that the media pressures them to have a perfect body

div#related-article-links p a, div#related-article-links p a:visited { color:#06c; } COSMETICS on sale in high-street shops were tested on animals years after the practice was banned in the UK.

A ban on live animal testing of cosmetics was introduced in 1998 when the government withdrew licences for testing ingredients in make-up and other beauty products.

Three popular products, produced under the leading brand Olay, contain a cosmetic preservative, butylparaben, that was tested on animals

Mrs. Brown was to be honored by her local PTA that very evening. At the beauty parlor hours before the big event, she decided to go ahead and try a cosmetic change -- to permanently darken her brows and eyelashes. Her hairdresser had a new coal tar-based dye called "Lash Lure." Riding home, Mrs. Brown’s eyes started burning. According to Teresa Riordan, author of Inventing Beauty, Mrs. Brown made matters probably worse when she got home by applying various treatments herself, one boric acid, another a topical made by her pharmacist, and then “yellow oxide of mercury.’ At the PTA banquet that evening, Mrs. Brown was so uncomfortable she left early. In the ensuing days, the skin around Mrs. Brown’s eyes ulcered and blistered. Nothing really helped. Of the aftermath, The New Republic would write: “Her eyes are gone and the flesh around them is a mass of tortured scars.”1

Two main eating disorders pertain to thinness they are Anorexia nervosa and Bulimia nervosa

A National survey revealed that up to seventy five percent of women consider themselves too fat when in reality they are below the ideal weight standards that are established.

In America fifty six percent of all women are on diets.

Shark finning is not illegal. Taiwan has no law against fins taken from international waters coming into its ports. However, Taiwan does have what it calls a "plan of action" that requires the bodies of the sharks the fins came from to be accounted for and not dumped into the sea.

but identifying them and monitoring them and having a regulated fishery is virtually impossible."

Taiwan is not alone. Shark finning thrives off weak regulations around the world and only a few countries demand that sharks arrive in port with fins attached.

the standard of female beauty often has been unrealistic and difficult to attain.

Women are told that they can and should "have it all."

Though it is highly unlikely for a rail-thin woman to have natural DD-cup size breasts, toy manufacturers set this expectation by developing and marketing the Barbie doll, whose measurements are physiologically impossible

connection between the increasing thinness of so many celebrities and the alarmingly rapid rise in eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa?

much debate still centers around the extent of media influence on anorexia.

despite the evidence

The media is constantly bombarding us with images of celebrities who have slim, and sometimes very thin, bodies.

often appear in magazines and on television looking thin, and sometimes even verging on emaciated.

Celebrities are scrutinised when they put on a few pounds as well as when they lose them.

50% of girls between the ages of 13 and 15 believe they are overweight.

80% of 13 year old girls have dieted

40% of 9 year old girls dieted

There is enormous pressure from the media on young girls to be thin.

Models can be seen everywhere with their skeleton frames sticking out suggesting this is the body image one should strive for.

Eating disorders are so common in models that it seems to get glamorized to young girls.