Media Influence On Anorexia Nervosa And The Media

Anorexia nervosa is a topic of current interest. The media creates the impression that to be rich and successful in life one has to be beautiful and slim. Young woman want to adapt to the ideal of beauty the media promotes unaware of the serious consequences this may have in regard to their health.
They try to look like the celebrities and models presented on TV and in fashion and lifestyle magazines. These magazines encourage their readers to go on a diet and to lose weight and they offer a wide range of different kinds of diet plans. Diets which are published in these kinds of magazines are usually crash diets, which promise to lead to a rapid reduction of weight in a very short time but which are not based on a healthy dietary change.
Not only young women but also men are put under pressure by the dominant ideal of beauty to be thin as the media does not only present young, beautiful and slim women but as well young men who are well-trained and muscular.
Firstly, the essay will focus on the behaviour of people suffering from an eating anorexia nervosa. Sencondly, it will be discussed in how far the dominant ideal of beauty promotes eating disorders like anorexia nervosa and it will be reflected on the influence the media and the society have on the ideal of beauty. Then, the essay will deal with the course of therapy for anorexia nervosa focusing on a form of therapy called “body image