Have you ever come across a situation like this? Your little sister was so attracted by an advertisement for a Barbie doll on television and was so influenced by it that she keeps pestering your mother to buy her one. After a long period of begging, your mother finally had to buy it for him. From this simple but significant example, you can see the enormous effect of media in our daily lives as human beings with needs and desires. The media influences us in all kinds of aspects, from the biggest decision of our lives, such as buying our house, down to the smallest thing we have to do, such as deciding to buy our clothes or change our hair products . Media is a word that comes from the word medium and the meaning of media from Wikipedia is the storage and transmission channels or tools used to store and deliver information and data. In providing information and data, the media has advantages and disadvantages. The advantages of media can be seen in their efficiency in disseminating news of all kinds to a gigantic and varied target audience, but on the other hand there are also some shortcomings. The media is indeed a very powerful avenue that can convey misleading messages and divert young minds in the wrong direction and one of the most influential effects of the media concerns body image. As you can observe from many advertisements, weight loss programs and beauty contests, they all promote the perception of how important your body image is or, in other words, it is important to have a thin body just to be liked and fit in with the world . society. Ultimately, most viewers will be influenced by this perception and will be completely influenced by it. The worst case that happens is that they are leading society to starve... middle of paper... easily influenced by TV shows and advertisements. This shows that a truly huge diversity of people have been affected by anorexia and we know that the reasons behind it are media coverage. In conclusion, we can say that the media really influences the growing trend of anorexic behavior. Anorexia nervosa itself is dangerous for people in all kinds of aspects and most of the people affected by the disease are influenced by the media especially after watching programs that highlight the discomfort on themselves such as weight loss programs, beauty contests and advertising. Most people with anorexia are women, but men are not excluded and different groups of people from all types of backgrounds are at high risk of possessing the characteristics of an anorexic person. Therefore, we can fully conclude that media has an important effect on anorexic behavior.