Anorexia: The Role of Media (Essay Sample)

Anorexia: The Role of Media
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Anorexia: The Role of Media
Anorexia is a condition common among individuals who have an excessive desire to lose weight. The excessive desire to lose weight leads to loss of appetite or persons refusing to take meals regularly. Some scientists argue that Anorexia is not a disease but a variation of an emotional disorder. Media refers to the central medium of communication in a given society. Commonly it refers to radio, newspaper, the Internet, and television. Programs channeled through these mediums of communication have an impact on the lifestyles of their audience. One of the most common series of programs aired frequently is healthy living. The media has successfully deceived its addressees that slender persons have higher chances of living healthy lives and consequently living happily (Harrison et al. 1997). This paper examines whether plumpness is undesirable, how the Media’s obsession with slenderness catalyzes the rise of anorexia, social media, and anorexia, and a conclusion.
Today plum persons are considered somewhat ugly, unattractive and often discriminated in some job. Moreover, they are considered unhealthy and likely to suffer from certain medical disorders or conditions. These types of analogies are highly debatable, and medical professionals should offer more information on them. However, obesity is a condition whereby individuals have excessive weight, for persons to be declared obese their body weight and height is considered other factors. Ill-informed social, cultural factors should not be used to victimize certain members of the society. Minors who grow with the wrong beliefs receive Media campaigns against such persons; this leads to teenagers embracing bad feeding habits in the quest to live healthy lives (Garner & Garnfinkel 1980). Plump persons should not be victimized for whatever reasons since they are healthy until declared obeys by a medical profession.
The 21st media is extremely obsessed with slenderness, which it has successfully passed on to its audience. The majority of the media houses today have to cover a story about living healthy in its programs. Stories broadcasted are geared towards proving that slim persons are healthy and live happier lives compared to plump persons. This lie has fueled the rise of Anorexia to worrying levels. Eight out of ten individuals living in urban dwellings suffer from Anorexia owing to a program they watched on TV, or publications they have read. (Prendergast et al.’s 2002) Argues that advertisements and editorial materials of thin bodied persons have fueled Anorexia. Such books, TV and radio programs catalyze the rise of Anorexia.
Social media plays a significant role in fueling the growth of Anorexia. The effect of social media in spreading rise of the disorder is more lethal, compared to other media channels. Individuals receive messages from social media on their mobile phones and laptops among other devices, taking them more seriously. Messages that propagate the detrimental effects of plumpness are often taken more seriously and remedies to the same receive an equal measure of seriousness. Topics on Anorexia trend on social media for months and they reappear in different dimensions causing more damage each time they appear. According to (Harrison 1997) social media is the present day primary tool of advertisement. These are because what goes viral on social media is hardly vetted to determ...