Now, with perfection being the Penelope Cruz's and Paris Hiltons of the world, the ideal dress size is considerably smaller, more around a size 1 or 2. ... Advertising also plays a major role in American teenage anorexia. ... Teenage depression also has links to anorexia. ... In an effort to please coaches, teammates and parents, girls are losing weight anyway they can. ... Whatever the cause of an eating disorder like anorexia in teenage girls, the effects are usually very devastating. ...

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Women In the Media: Portraying the Ideal Woman or an Unrealistic Beauty Queen? ... (Phillips 1) For a magazine aimed at an audience of teenage girls, Seventeen does a lot of reporting on men. ... A man, giving his perceptions of "My Sister's Battle with Anorexia-, wrote one of only two articles in 1992 about eating disorders among teenage girls. ... Approximately one percent of adolescent girls develop anorexia nervosa, a dangerous condition in which girls are intensely fearful of gaining weight. ... These articles almost invariably deal with a teenage girl's relations with othe...

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For reasons that are unclear, many teenage girls feel the need to be as thin as they can be. ... Throughout puberty, girls feel their body is not "ideal." ... Teenage girls need to find the strength to accept themselves as they are. Whether girls are over weight, or forty pounds under weight, every person is beautiful in their own way. ... Too many teenage girls are dying to be thin. ...

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As a result, some girls begin to diet excessively in order to reach that ideal, super-model body image. ... Anorexia affects two out of every one hundred teenage girls; bulimia affects three out of every one hundred teenage girls. Both anorexia and bulimia are essentially slimming eating disorders, where the individual aims at loosing weight. ... Bulimia can be more difficult to detect than anorexia because many girls and women with this disorder maintain a normal body weight. ... According to the article "Study Finds Alters Fiji Girls" View of Body" it says that "Fifteen percent in the 1998 s...

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Our society has changed since the last century, some people, mostly women and young teenage girls, look at themselves and feel that their specific body type is not right. Women and these adolescent girls have always been encouraged to achieve the ideal body, one that is thin and fit (Monro, Huon 85). ... The ideal female beauty has become the image of thinner, but women today are getting bigger, and the gap between the actual body size and the ideal image of a woman is widening (Dittmar, Halliwell, and Stirling 44). ... To help girls reduce internalization of the thin ideal, the intervention h...

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It has the largest impact, although, on teenage girls. ... Despite what teenage girls may intend or imply, the media will always have a large impact on their lives. ... body has caused girls to go to extremes to achieve this ideal body image. ... Some girls for example have become depressed because of their appearance, and their weight, so they go to extremes to lose weight. ... Most girls are depressed because of their weight, so they are willing to do anything they can to lose weight. ...

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Sadly, as a result, this repeated exposure, the "thin" ideal, can lead many young girls in triggering eating disorders, depression, low self-esteem, stress, and suicide. ... The three central types of media that I found that did indeed influence body image are: Fashion magazines, famous top-models and actresses, and teenage or young adult women in the music industry. ... In television and movies, many teen girls watch and observe these actresses, such as Calista Flockhart, Courtney Cox, Jennifer Aniston, Gweneth Paltrow, Lara Flynn Boyle, and many others who have seemed to have went from an "a...

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Sadly, as a result, this repeated exposure, the "thin" ideal, can lead many young girls in triggering eating disorders, depression, low self-esteem, stress, and suicide. ... The three central types of media that I found that did indeed influence body image are: Fashion magazines, famous top-models and actresses, and teenage or young adult women in the music industry. ... In television and movies, many teen girls watch and observe these actresses, such as Calista Flockhart, Courtney Cox, Jennifer Aniston, Gweneth Paltrow, Lara Flynn Boyle, and many others who have seemed to have went from an "a...

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The media culture has for long exploited the vulnerability of the modern young people to its ideal that is ethically and professionally harmful to society. ... From this, I can remark that the media has impacted negatively on sexism and beauty and is misleading the teenage population. ... The majority of the teenage girls will sit there and look at the enhanced with Photoshop excellence longing for the thighs and thin hips however neglects to understand that the picture before strength not be genuine (Rauste, 1989). ... That is to say, social phenomena make fantastic weight on people to make ...

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The Media's Effects on Body Image Of Females Eating disorder and dieting among teenage and college female's rates are rising. ... Many girls today are concerned with body shape and weight gain, which is sometimes labeled as "drive for thinness" or "fear of fat" (Wiederman & Pryor, 2000). Because of this "drive for thinness" many girls are becoming obsessed with the ideal image that the media presents. Although there are many reasons and factors involved in the obsession girls have with their bodies, the media does make it hard for girls to feel good about themselves when every...

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As a result, teenage eating disorders are on the rise today in America due to these and many other factors. ... The pressures of looking great are taking their toll on teenage girls in America. ... Other social factors can play major roles in the continuing obsession with having that ideal body. ... The "ideal" body can always be acheived, but will just require higher than average determination and dedication. ... Since a large number of anorexics are teenage girls, this process can interrupt normal growth attained through puberty and into adulthood. ...

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Low self-esteem issue is most common in teenage girls and in women however younger and older men could also feel this way as well. ... Girls and women are trying to lose weight until they literally cannot loose anymore weigh and sometimes dying from anorexia may be the major result of ones eating disorder. ... According to a research done by California State University, "The advertisements sell images of thin, beautiful light skinned women, along with the image is a message from the advertising company telling girls to lose weight, or increase their breast size" (Reed). ... Sexual ad...

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"To all girls who think you're ugly because you're not a size zero, you're the beautiful one. ... " Not only is the fashion industry implying that to be an ideal woman a woman needs to be thin, but they're also implying that to be an ideal woman you have to be white. ... Women and adolescents think that anorexia or bulimia is the easy way to lose weight. ... One Tumblr website called pro-ana-crystalized.tumblr.com is run by a teenage girl who battles with an eating disorder. ... By definition they are people that want to develop an eating disorder as a technique t...

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Social media websites obtain a contributing factor for the development of eating disorders in women in their teenage and adult years. ... Some of NEDA's statistics provide that "42% of first through third grade girls want to be thinner, and 81% of 10-year-old girls are afraid of being fat" (Andrist 119). ... In an article a study held with over 1,300 girls in middle and high school who often or sometimes read magazine articles that discuss dieting or weight loss, revealed that they were twice as likely to engage in unhealthy weight control conductions and three times as likel...

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In the sixties Anorexia Nervosa was usually only found affecting teenage girls in the upper-middle class. ... Even though the most known occurrences are in teenage girls, it still affects a large group of people. ... They do this by a strict diet to form the "ideal" body figure. ... "A girl has a ten to twenty times higher risk of developing anorexia nervosa, for instance, if she has a sibling with the disease" (Wolfe 2). ... When teenage girls, especially, see all the advertisements with slender girls, it makes them feel as if they won't fit in. ...

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Consequently, in order for one to achieve the ideal body image, women aggressively manipulate their appearance and weight by dieting, purging or self-starvation. In conclusion, the media promotes this, ideal body image, which can cause women to become discontented with their body size and shape. ... When women begin to fear gaining weight, they will utilize dieting as one way to lose weight. ... Moreover, studies further show that teenage girls who are frequent readers of magazines have a higher prevalence of dieting and exercising behaviors to lose weight compared to those infrequent readers...

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Anorexia nervosa occurs in ½% to 1% of girl's aged 13 to 17, peaking at age 15. ... One study of high school students reported that 2.7% of girls and 1.4% of boys engaged in bulimic behavior. ... Thousands of teenage girls are starving themselves to attain what the fashion industry considers to be the ideal figure. ... Teenagers need to realize that society's ideal body image is not achievable. ... We buy into the idea that we can attain the "ideal- body image. ...

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Preventing teenage obesity is a complex issue. The teen years are times of intense peer pressure: extra weight can lead to social demands and teasing, while the perceived ideal body image, especially for girls, creates unrealistic expectations. The rising occurrence of teenage obesity is causing diabetes, heart disease and other health problems earlier and earlier in adult life. ...

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Boys are treated differently from girls from the start of their birth. ... Boys are not allowed to play with dolls or to play "girls" games. ... At their teenage years, majority of males learn to become competitive, strong, and aggressive. ... For instance, in the Columbine shooting, the two teenage boys were only getting back at the other kids for picking on them. Our society has a set image in its mind of the "ideal image." ...

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Many girls are able to say that they have learned the basic rules of teenage femininity through the twins. ... Not all teenagers are thin, some do have some extra weight. ... By 9th grade she was down to weight in the 90s and was in denial of her problem. ... - To the average teenage girl these questions appear throughout daily life. ... Another issue besides weight is...

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Abstract An attractive appearance is proven to be so essential to the feminine gender role, the search for correct ideal of beauty causes many problems for adolescent girls. ... It was found that by six years of age, a large number of girls already desired a thinner ideal figure (p.135.) ... These ideals, however unrealistic and unhealthy, are the idealism our society and drive many adolescent females to make dangerously unhealthy choices with regard to their appearance and weight. ... Body image becomes a major issue as females go through puberty; girls in mid-adolescence frequently report be...

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Mary Pipher, PhD. discusses the roles that society plays in shaping the self esteem of teenage and preteen age girls. ... Weight issues have caused conditions of anorexia and bulimia putting young girls in jeopardy of declining health. ... Girls learn through society to be nice rather than honest. ... Young girls are motivated by what kinds of women are respected in our culture and what body shapes are considered ideal. ... Yet many of these girls are still. ...

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Because media is supreme and inescapable, little girls fear gaining weight to avoid shame and exclusion. Some adolescent girls have even reported being more afraid of gaining weight than getting cancer, losing their parents, or nuclear war (Media Influence, par. 3). ... Media is an universal part of our culture and with the ideal body type changing over time, body dissatisfaction has consequently become a major problem. ... Because these areas store the most fat, women try extra hard to rid themselves of the added weight. ... Add in images of women with teenage boy bodies draped in the latest ...

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Christy Henrich is just one example of the thousands of girls who die everyday because of anorexia. ... "Most often, eating disorders affect teenage girls and young women; females are estimated to be seven to ten times more likely to develop and eating disorder than males" (Harmon 9). ... "In North American culture, being thing is in and being over weight is out" (Graves 30). ... "They tend to judge themselves by the artificial ideals of slimness established in the media, in magazines, and in the movies. Their weight and shape many not conform to these ideals, but that does not necessarily mea...

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Case study one Sports such as tennis are beginning to confront to tensions associated with maintaining a production line of young, and in many cases underage, teenage girls for the professional ranks. ... In December 1998 the A.I.S was the subject of media scrutiny after it was alleged that female tennis scholarship holders had been victimised for being over weight. ... Golden Girl Image Sexing up of sport is perhaps even a bizarre attempt to revive the golden girl image of the late 1990's. ... The mythology of the golden girls was essentially a romantic image of white Australia. It i...

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