tamins in your diet are the ones that are endangering our youth’s well-being. In answer to the media problem researches suggest a couple things. First, one important thing we need to do is “Encourage the media to present more diverse and real images of people with positive message about health and self esteem” (The Media, Body Image & Eating Disorders,1997). This will in no way completely solve the eating disorder epidemic, but might in a sense take some of the pressure off teens about the feeling to need to be thin.A second way that researchers are proposing to our society about eating disorders is strictly prevention. In doing this there are a few things to keep in mind and to follow. One, develop or improve family communication skills(LQS Programs). We need to be able to teach our children the danger that lie in fad diets that lead to eating disorders, and to encourage them maintain a healthy diet and exercise plan (Levine & Smolak, 2000). There are currently many organizations that have evolved in hopes to help prevent eating disorders, and to get out information to the public on how severe eating disorders really are. Nationally, there is the American Anorexia Bulimia Association, The National Eating Disorders Screening Programs, The Eating Disorders Awareness and Prevention, Inc. Atop of the few of these I just mentioned, there are many more nationally as well as local community organizations.I personally think that education and prevention are interlinked. Both techniques are definitely needed if we want to bring about any changes in hope to decrease eating disorders. We can’t have one without the other, or try promoting one without somehow tying in the other. I know that we won’t ever completely find and cure that will stop the development of eating disorders, but as a society I think that it is our responsibility to educate and become more educated on this issue so that to some degree pr...
