Eating disorder impelled by media influence
Eating disorder can become anyone’s adversary. A well-coped and
rational man is unguaranteed safe from meeting, and eventually, having the
condition. It is a hinged belief of the physical, mental, and emotional
credence on mere dieting, where in fact; it hasn’t been so, cleverly.
We are being battered daily with facts about everything from
everywhere with the outburst of information technology. We are being attacked
with new information at every turn with this entire media. We are told what is
new, what is popular, what is good, and what is bad. And whether we acknowledge
it or not, it influences our choices.
This health indisposition is deemed to be a
serious behavior problem, as it is generated solely on their urge to
losing weight: media influence.
Though culture, as one of the etiological factors leading to its
development is part of the craze, it is seen less controlling than that of the
media, which most, on the subject agrees that both are directly
connected. The media and body image have long been dependent upon each
other to set styles and trends. For years, society has let the media set
the standards of how men and, particularly women, are supposed to look in order
to be attractive, and all-well effective. Unfortunately, many of these standards
are unlikely for a normal person to achieve. In the depths of despair, as they
say.
When actors and models, or any individual aboard in a profession
that relies largely on appearance are depicted as idyllic, (because they are
thin), eating disorder and media are once again solidly linked. Typical
women feel pressured to do whatever they feel is necessary to emulate and live
up to these criteria. They won’t see themselves desirable unless they are
wearing a size smaller than their original number.
There may be an index of pressure to look a certain way, and that
we can’t reproach these individuals for succumbing because we’re all, anyway,
guilty of feeling vulnerable, but the fact that health is taken at risk; that
is alarming. We should always be reminded that this is not strictly vanity
issues, and encouraging the act is exclusively misconduct.
One of the many ways that the media and body image promote eating
disorders is through the constant display of women wearing next to nothing or
tight fitting clothing; or men fancying the 6-packed abs. Aside from
these outlandish spectacles are comments spawned regarding the
advertisements. It is such as these that give people the impression that
unless they are 5’8’’ in height and 100 pounds in weight, they are perceived
fat and ugly.
Eating disorders and the media have come under fire on more than
one occasion in the past years. Even singers, who felt they had put on a
pound or two, started using a slenderizing filming technique to shoot their
music videos. The finished product came out looking unnatural, although
the singers were certainly slender enough. This comes to show that when
you interview a number of women, you would be hard-pressed to find one who is
happy with their body because of the standards the media sets. In this respect,
media may contribute to low self-esteem by promoting thinness as the way to
gaining love, acceptance and respect.
The relation between media exposure and eating disorders is very
constricted. Media continues to model unhealthy eating attitudes and behaviors.
One of the ways we can protect our self-esteem and body image from the media’s
often narrow definition of beauty and acceptability is to become a critical
viewer of the media messages we are bombarded with each day. If we assent to
the media messages about attractiveness and body shape and size, then it will
have an effect on the way we think about our bodies and ourselves. We should be
prompted that dieting doesn’t make us a happier person, and
overall successful.
The underlying, and funny question though is “What would
happen if all of a sudden, “thin” wasn’t “in”, would people then pig out to
gain weight?” (Louie dela Vega/Photo courtesy by:
www.huffingtonpost.com)
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