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It has been argued that images of unhealthily thin stars in the media have encouraged anorexic behaviour in impressionable young women. But a study published in The American Journal of Psychiatry suggests that the brains of anorexia sufferers behave differently to those of the rest of the population and that certain people are born with a susceptibility to develop the condition.
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Maybe I am missing something here, but I think this article is kinda silly.
The study shows Anorexia has biological factors and that there is a predisposition to developing it. Which is fine, and not exactly a new theory. But because of this, we are supposed to believe that being bombarded with thin images in the media has no negative effect on young impressionable girls, eating-disordered or not?
How does it conclude from the results of this study that our thin-obsessed culture (including models/celebs) aren't an encouraging and detrimental influence?
(As
this blog says, how does proving A causes B, disprove that C can also cause (or, in this case, at least contribute) to B?)