The easiest solution I saw was to lose a whole bunch of weight, even though at 5'10- and 135lbs. I was by no means overweight. So at first I just started dieting and exercising. This was fine for a while but I slowly began to see that the more I worked out and the less I ate the more rapidly I was losing pounds. By the time I was a sophomore in college, my dieting turned into anorexia and obsessive exercising and a year after this I wound up in the hospital due to a heart attack, attached to a heart monitor and feeding tubes up my nose weighing in at only 98 lbs. This is the main reason why I hold a strong belief that the media plays a big role in eating disorders among adolescents. I fell victim to it and I know that many other girls have as well. .
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Turn on the television and turn to MTV. There you will see many role models that adolescents look up to. Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and Janet Jackson are all great examples of this. These three women are few of the many that younger girls wish to be like and that younger boys dream about. Both boys and girls get an implanted image into their heads that that is what all people should look like. This is not right. Adolescents, especially young girls, are venerable to what body image should and should not be. When they see a girl like Britney Spears with large breasts, a thin build, and just about perfect everything else, they get the idea imprinted into their heads that this is what they should look like. Britney has fame, fortune, a lot of attention from the opposite sex, and happiness (as so it appears) so why should everyone not want to look like that, right? Wrong. It is just this that can lead to eating disorders, obsessive behavior, and other mental and physical health problems. These are the instrumental values that need to be addressed by the media. They are giving no consideration to morals or values.
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