In addition, books on beauty products and diet are sold in the market, especially for women, as a way to realize the ideal type.

In fact, it costs millions of dollars to market beauty and food industries each year. This leads to constant image and information (written and verbal) to prevent men and women from being satisfied with their bodies and encourage them to change their appearance.

How does this continuous information affect us? Does it cause or affect diet or other dangerous behaviors?

The answer is complicated. Research supports the view that there is a family genetic factors that support dietary disorders, but it also shows that the current social and cultural atmosphere (the media is part of it) plays a role in the development and maintenance of dietary disorders. When a person is facing a very thin person or a TV show to reduce the weight by abuse and torture obese body, it will definitely be more difficult to recover from dietary disorders.

Studies have shown that television is the impact on dietary disorders

Girls who never touched Western TV station suddenly started to watch before watching? Researchers actually have the opportunity to find the answer.

In 2002, a milestone research was published, which evaluated the impact of television's attitude and behavior on Fiji girls' diet and behavior. The Fiji Islands did not have Western TV stations before 1995, so they provided researchers with an opportunity to really understand the attitude and behavior after the TV came.

Fiji's cultural tradition attaches great importance to a plump body. Encourage your appetite and not encourage diet. In 1995, an investigation of adolescent girls found that few of them were reported to die for weight loss, and no girl reported that herself caused vomiting. In 1998, after three years of contact with Western TV stations, the investigation was repeated, and the results were as follows:

• 11.3 % indicates that it causes vomiting to control weight
• 69 % of people report diet
• 74 % said "at least at least at some point or too fat"

Girls living in a TV house are three times more likely to have a disordered diet than girls without a TV. Although it is difficult to promote these results to all other cultures, the study shows that the media, especially television, did affect the physical image and diet.

A follow -up study shows that even watching TV will increase the risk of dietary disorders.

The influence of Internet and social media on dietary disorders

In recent years, online images have been called "ThinsPiration" or THINSPO. These are mainly found on dietary disorders, although they also appear on more mainstream websites. Studies have shown that watching these images can reduce calorie intake and self -esteem.

Some studies have shown that using social media websites such as Facebook can make adolescent girls and women more likely to eat disorders. It also makes everyone face the risk of feeling bad and dissatisfied with their bodies.

More research is needed in this regard, but there are reasons to believe that frequent use of social media will affect a person's view of himself.

The impact of fashion magazines on dietary imbalance

Most studies of printing media and dietary disorders are concentrated in fashion magazines because they often depict photos of unrealistic weight -loss models that are often widely used by Photoshop.

Studies have shown that adolescent girls who often read and watch fashion magazines are two to three times more likely to lose weight because of an article. A survey of girls in grades 5-12 found:

• 69 % of the girls report that "magazine pictures will affect their perception of perfect body shape"
• 47 % of the respondents said "I want to lose weight because of magazine pictures"

Although many people are obsessed with losing weight and weight loss, research also shows that the desire for weight, dieting, and seemingly like models or celebrities is a indicator of increased risk of dietary disorders. Because no one is immune to diet, for people of all ages, they must learn to watch the media and their information critical.

The goal of media literacy training is to help people look vital to watch the media and alleviate some of them. To understand more information about media literacy applicable to body images, check the About-Face and Proud2bme.