Media Images and Eating Disorders

Instructions: – to describe this topic or development as clearly and concisely as possible for the specified audience; in other words, to educate your audience about this topic as thoroughly as possible given the space constraints. – to make a compelling, specific, and explicit case explaining obvious and not-soobvious reasons this development is important. -Use the following thesis for this paper: Media images have the potential to encourage eating disorders due to feelings of body dissatisfaction, increased pressure to achieve the perfect body, and low self-esteem. USE THE FOLLOWING 6 REFERENCES ONLY: 1. EATING DISORDERS, BODY DISSATISFACTION, AND SELF-ESTEEM AMONG SOUTH KOREAN WOMEN Kim, Soyoung.Social Behavior and Personality; Palmerston North Vol. 46, Iss. 9, (2018): 1537-1546. DOI:10.2224/sbp.6801 2. Cantech Letter: Excess social media use is causing eating disorders, finds Canadian study Weblog post. Newstex Finance & Accounting Blogs, Chatham: Newstex. Dec 8, 2016. 3. Saraceni, R., & Russell-Mayhew, S. (1).

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