Eating disorders and the role of the media.
BACKGROUND
This paper provides a review of the role of the media in the development, maintenance, prevention, and treatment of eating disorders.


METHODS
The literature on gambling in youth on the internet was reviewed. It explores: (1) the role of the media in providing a social context for the development of eating disorders, (2) the role of the media in the etiology of eating disorder pathology, (3) the ways in which the media is used by patients suffering from eating disorders, and (4) the role that awareness of the media can have in the treatment and prevention of eating disorders.


RESULTS
This review demonstrates that the media does contribute to the development of eating disorders.


CONCLUSIONS
This review highlights the need for media literacy and media activism to help change the current normative body discontent of women in the Western world.
Spettigue
Wendy
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Regional Eating Disorders Program, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario K1H 8L1.
Henderson
Katherine A
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