Does the Media Cause Eating Disorders? Disordered Eating in Iranian Women: From Tehran to Los Angeles
What is the impact of Western culture on eating disorders? Do images of thin cause eating disorders? I mean, it seems like such a nice and simple hypothesis. It makes intuitive sense: glamorize thin and make thin cool and BAM, everyone wants to be thin. It would be so much easier. Cause? Found. Solution? Easy: ban thin models. Unfortunately (or fortunately for me, since it gives me a lot to blog about) the answer is not that simple.
Just in the last couple of hours, some people who’ve ended up on the SEDs blog have searched:
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- and the rare: media doesn’t cause eating disorders
I’m sure most of these search terms lead people to the … Continue reading →