e reality. Television is making up a world for us that does not exist. Popular shows have very graceful and beautiful people who are trying to play out the daily lives that we lead. Any shows on television in which we can only name a few whom we say are still beautiful, but not ugly just because they are not as beautiful as their co-stars. We cannot say that television does not play a big role in influencing us when we watch. We are fascinated by Hollywood because we envy the actors or find them exceptional people.
             We know that the most obvious causes for these disorders are factors such as the image that the media projects all around of us. Media is a very broad topic, but the images that affect us most are movie stars, supermodels, athletes, ads, and the fashion industry. The media saturates us with ideal, often unattainable beauty. With this in mind, we can easily see why most cases of anorexia and bulimia hit more people in their teenage years and early adulthood. Anorexia affects 1-2% of the population in mostly women throughout Canada and the US; bulimia affects 3% of young women and 0.2% of men. These numbers are deceiving, as these small percentages out of 31.2 million people in Canada alone are quite considerable.
             The media is the one of the biggest impacts in our society and all over the world. It surrounds every person living in urban areas. Mimi White claims in "Ideological Analysis and Television" that we have, as a society, created many ideologies. "The process of having been raised and educated under the away of certain dominant meanings and beliefs (ideologies) establishes certain norms and expectations for all viewers." We have created a false analogy from television and all the media and advertisement we are exposed to every day. We have concluded, from the various sexy women and men from television, movies, and magazines, that they are our ideal models of the way we should perceive our bodie...