Society and Eating Disorders
Eating disorders, whether it’s bulimia or anorexia, can take control of a person’s life and shake the person down for all their worth until there is nothing left but a thin layer of skin and frail bones. Recent research have revealed the harsh truth about the factors that contribute to people developing an eating disorder and the number one factor is the environmental factors of the person. In other terms, society is the number one reason as to why people are devolping eating disorders.
Both men and women, at a very young age were taught that to be happy and successful they must be thin and fit and society contributes to that belief due to the media, commercials, and surrounding people advocating for thin and fit teens. The media has an extreme influence on teenagers. Regardless of the gender, young people want to look like the body images they see on television, in the movies and in magazines. The media is brainwashing the young into believing that being thin is important and necessary. Commercials, more specifically diet commercials also contribute to the brainwashing of teenagers because the commercials promote the idea that you can only be happy if you lose weight and look like the person in the commercial, who is unrealistically skinny. Through media, commercials, and surrounding people teens are being exposed to negative ideas that being skinny is the only way to achieve happiness. Young people continue to strive for this idea of skinny, trying to lose more and more weight to look like the unrealistically skinny people in ads and on social media, but the truth is teenagers are never satisfied with their image. Teenagers need to understand and realize that the “perfect” body image is never going to be achievable. Regardless of the extremes teens go to in order to feel good and look good, the truth is no matter how much weight they lose, no matter how skinny they look in the mirror, it will never be good enough. It will never satisfy their needs, so they will continue to work and go to extremes to shed more and more pounds, but in the end they will end up a thin layer of skin with frail bones and a frown on their face because no matter their size or look in the end, it will never be good enough to make them happy.
Both men and women, at a very young age were taught that to be happy and successful they must be thin and fit and society contributes to that belief due to the media, commercials, and surrounding people advocating for thin and fit teens. The media has an extreme influence on teenagers. Regardless of the gender, young people want to look like the body images they see on television, in the movies and in magazines. The media is brainwashing the young into believing that being thin is important and necessary. Commercials, more specifically diet commercials also contribute to the brainwashing of teenagers because the commercials promote the idea that you can only be happy if you lose weight and look like the person in the commercial, who is unrealistically skinny. Through media, commercials, and surrounding people teens are being exposed to negative ideas that being skinny is the only way to achieve happiness. Young people continue to strive for this idea of skinny, trying to lose more and more weight to look like the unrealistically skinny people in ads and on social media, but the truth is teenagers are never satisfied with their image. Teenagers need to understand and realize that the “perfect” body image is never going to be achievable. Regardless of the extremes teens go to in order to feel good and look good, the truth is no matter how much weight they lose, no matter how skinny they look in the mirror, it will never be good enough. It will never satisfy their needs, so they will continue to work and go to extremes to shed more and more pounds, but in the end they will end up a thin layer of skin with frail bones and a frown on their face because no matter their size or look in the end, it will never be good enough to make them happy.