How does media promote Unhealthy Eating Habits in regulating body image?
How Does Media Promote Unhealthy Habits in Regulating Body Image?
There are many detrimental physical, and psychological effects from observing the media. If body image concerns are intense enough, they may catalyze behaviours that are aimed at changing one’s physique to reduce discontent (Borzekowski, Bayer, 2005, pg.3). How does the media promote unhealthy habits in regulating body image? Studies have been done especially and specifically concerning the media’s influence on eating disorders. Media has a direct effect with the audience and is a strong contributing factor in eating disorders such as bulimia nervosa, anorexia, etc. Media is also linked very closely with skewed body image, and body image ideals. They make the unattainable seem accomplishable, normal, and the natural way of living. The constant bombardment of the media makes even myself participate in disordered eating habits such as overeating to gain mass. I do this to increase the amount of muscle mass I can attain through resistance training programs. A majority of the population would also participate in disordered eating habits in order to attain an elusive body ideal.
Using a symbolic interactionist insight, one may argue that we obtain these ideals and unhealthy habits, through interactions with the media. Media figures and Television figures are prominent socializing factors in a society’s lives. They influence what a population wears, what music they listen to, and the type of lifestyle they live. Media figures are idolized in societies around the world, and since one would try to replicate them as much as they can, they can find their selves reaching for a seemingly impossible ideal, to such an extent that one may even undergo cosmetic surgery to be like them.
Observing the media can drastically alter body image. Body image is portrayed as a key aspect of self-worth and mental health across the lifespan (Usmiani S, Daniluk J, Barter S., Asci FH, Gokmen H, from Borzekowksi, Bayer,
There are many detrimental physical, and psychological effects from observing the media. If body image concerns are intense enough, they may catalyze behaviours that are aimed at changing one’s physique to reduce discontent (Borzekowski, Bayer, 2005, pg.3). How does the media promote unhealthy habits in regulating body image? Studies have been done especially and specifically concerning the media’s influence on eating disorders. Media has a direct effect with the audience and is a strong contributing factor in eating disorders such as bulimia nervosa, anorexia, etc. Media is also linked very closely with skewed body image, and body image ideals. They make the unattainable seem accomplishable, normal, and the natural way of living. The constant bombardment of the media makes even myself participate in disordered eating habits such as overeating to gain mass. I do this to increase the amount of muscle mass I can attain through resistance training programs. A majority of the population would also participate in disordered eating habits in order to attain an elusive body ideal.
Using a symbolic interactionist insight, one may argue that we obtain these ideals and unhealthy habits, through interactions with the media. Media figures and Television figures are prominent socializing factors in a society’s lives. They influence what a population wears, what music they listen to, and the type of lifestyle they live. Media figures are idolized in societies around the world, and since one would try to replicate them as much as they can, they can find their selves reaching for a seemingly impossible ideal, to such an extent that one may even undergo cosmetic surgery to be like them.
Observing the media can drastically alter body image. Body image is portrayed as a key aspect of self-worth and mental health across the lifespan (Usmiani S, Daniluk J, Barter S., Asci FH, Gokmen H, from Borzekowksi, Bayer,