Comments on: Body Image and the Media [Videographic]

By: Steven

Steven — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:32:01 +0000

Actually 8 million is more like 2.6 percent of the population based on a population of 300 million. And speaking as a person who has had a sister as well as a few friends with eating disorders I can say that the pressure we see from the popular media to be skinny has increased dramatically in recent history and is driving more girls than ever to become obsessed with their body image. As for the morbidity rate it seems that you are simply splitting hairs. What was incredible to me is the stat about womens health and fitness magazines and diet pills / vomiting.

By: Ann Levey

Ann Levey — Fri, 13 May 2011 13:02:34 +0000

The 8,000,000 seems high’ That would be close to 4% of the population when other stats have it more at around 1%. Further, it is at odds with the claim that 1,000 people will die this year. That would be only a .01% morbidity rate, which is very low and out of step with stats I have read elsewhere which say around .5% morbidity. This make me curious about the source of the numbers.

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