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How the media influnce people with eating disorders?

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In much of pop culture media around the wolrd (which is generally centralized in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia), women are typically thinner. Models are very thin, giving the image that this is the average and "ideal" women, which can incourage the general public to lose weight to look like this, which may spark eating disorders.

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