Add comment Anorexia nervosa and bulimia are two of the most intense and common forms of eating disorders. The media's message that loveliness and happiness come from being thin is only one of the many causes of these two diseases. Teen idols such as models, actors, actresses and gymnasts are often too thin and severely unhealthy.
Many female adolescents try to measure up to their thinner peers and heroes.
As a result, many young women starve themselves, or purge the food they have consumed in order to meet the media's idea of attractive. The projected idea that skinny is beautiful is distorting the minds, as well as bodies of our nation's young women. When she turns on the television, actors and actresses are being portrayed as gorgeous sex symbols because of how attractive and lean they are. As a result, the young woman comes to believe that she should weigh ninety pounds as well. She believes that by skipping meals and limiting her calorie intake to five hundred calories a day, she will become happy and beautiful.