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 * 1) 40 percent of people who are obese are binge eaters.
 * 2) . A startling 16% of girls in the UK begin puberty at eight years of age. They also seem to be growing up quicker than ever in a social and behavioural sense
 * 3) Nearly 50 per cent of children’s parties have some part outsourced to a professional so it seems that even their parties are adult-like.
 * 4) Numerous research studies on body image have shown that girls that are from ethnic backgrounds such as Afro-American and Chinese-Americans, for example showed to have a higher self-esteem relating to their body image compared to those of young white American girls in the same age group.
 * 5) Studies conducted by the Melpomene Institute for Women’s Health have also shown that women who were 50 years and older also felt underrepresented in the media.
 * 6) Another study by the Melpomene Institute conducted in 1985 found the following: 39% of women aged 20-29 believed they looked better than most women compared to 87% of women over the age of 50 choosing the same response.
 * 7) you believe diets are just for adults, you will be shocked to learn that a Harvard study (Fat Talk, Harvard University Press) published in 2000 revealed that 86% of teenage girls are on a diet or believe they should be on one
 * 8) According to the National Eating Disorders Association, 51% of 9 and 10-year-old girls actually feel better about themselves when on a diet.
 * 9) Then western television programs were introduced, including “hits” such as ER, Melrose Place and Xena: Warrior Princess. Three years later, the eating disorders in girls on the island rose to 15%. A surprising follow-up study reported 74% of Fijian girls feeling “too fat or big” and 62% had dieted in the last month—surprising in a culture that typically upholds curvaceous women as beautiful.
 * 10) Author Ariel Levy discusses this phenomenon in her 2005 book Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture. Within her prior research, Levy followed the camera crew from the Girls Gone Wild video series, and argues that contemporary America's sexed-up culture not only objectifies women, it encourages women to objectify themselves.[19]
 * 11) Fisher (1986) emphasizes the fact that body image undoubtedly plays a part in all of the behaviours that are visually interpreted to show how an individual feels about themselves. So when a female begins to portray a symptom of depression on her body image one has to pause and ask, “Why is there suddenly this problem?” Is the media wholly responsible for this type of crisis simply by presenting a bombardment of extremely thin and sexy women? The answer is dutifully, yes. If the media would focus on how women actually are instead of presenting false ideals then perhaps there would not be such an upset among the female gender. There might not be eating disorders, or poor self-esteem levels among women in the real world.
 * 12) Obviously, the media affects all facets of a females life. If a woman starts to become overtly depressed due to her feelings of failure of herself then it can have a vast impact in other areas of her life such as, sexual orientation, sexual awareness, comfort of ones own self, sexual arousal patterns, intimacy, delinquent behaviour, clothing choice, drug addiction, tolerance of stress, and how they interrelate with their environment (Fisher 1998, p.625
 * 13) All evidence that has been being gathered over the years, by a number of reputable researchers, points to the fact that media consumption is the main culprit in disorders such as bulimia and anorexia nervosa, affecting young girls in particular (Holmstrom 2004). To further emphasize on the image that the media habitually presents, the statistical evidence shows that they exemplify on images that show women to be on average a height of 5”11 and 120 pounds. This is totally opposite what exists in the real-time world. An average female is around 5”4 and 140 pounds.
 * 14) The media has a role to fill in this area as well. Nine times out of ten, it is believed that women have problems sexually due to how they have begun to feel about their bodies because of the media’s projection of images into their minds and lives.
 * 15) Women are going to great lengths to try and be equal to what the media represents women to be. It has come to the point where the issue has surpassed simply body size, but gone on to facial characteristics as well. This has lead women to look into areas of change that involve, cosmetic surgery, liposuction, face-lifts, and miracle diets in an attempt to look their best and achieve perfection (Rodin 1992).