It almost everywhere you look. Pictures running rampid on magazine covers,
             advertisements, billboards: everywhere. Standing in the line at the grocery store, flipping
             through a magazine, or just glancing at the advertisements on television. It is quite
             evident by looking at the emaciated pictures of young women and surprisingly men too,
             what the media considers as the "ideal" figure. This perception society has created, plays a
             major part in our countries obsession with thinness and extreme dieting. America's
             obsession with health and diets and the fashion industry and television exhibiting waif thin
             models as "sexy and voluptuous", gives a distorted notion sending many young women the
             wrong idea about body image. In today's society these eating problems, such as anorexia
             and bulimia, are becoming all too common. Yet, the question still remains, what are the
             causes and factors contributing to this destructive behavior, and what kind of impact is the
             media contributing to these problems?
             Although there are only a few quantitative studies on the issue of eating disorders
             and the link between the diseases and the media: the research that has been done is quite
             informative and interesting. Hopefully though, in time more research will fill in some of
             the links to the enigma of eating disorders. The fashion industry, television, and society's
             norms have all promoted not only a distorted perspective of what a "beautiful" person is
             defined as, but influenced many to deception therefore leaving many with an eating
             Looking at the television one can easily notice all of the ads and diet commercials
             claiming to have to newest and hottest diet. With these ads and societies norms, many are
             led to believe once the weight is lost, we they will be happy. Surely everyone has noticed
             the magazines while standing in line at the grocery store. Most of them claim to also have
             the latest and best diet. What ha...