Globalization Of Eating Disorders By Susan Bordo Summary

What would your definition of an epidemic be? Do you think of epidemics to automatically be bad? Or do you think epidemics are good? The main issue is that the media, which surrounds our culture today, creates several epidemics and some being bad as expressed in the article Globalization of Eating Disorders by Susan Bordo. Bordo explains how television and other media outlets increased the percentage rate of eating disorders in countries that before were not reported until after television, and other forms of media were introduced to the country. The second side argues, according to “Its Spreading,” by Jill Lepore, that the media is highly effective in informing society, which allows us to be aware of significant issues worldwide. However,

One online health article blames a part of the society for the increase of eating disorders around the world. Thus, helping support Susan in her claim. A part of the article mentions that the “media’s focus on dieting and striving for a slim and toned silhouette, and Messages that perpetuate a fear of fat and food; viewing fat as undesirable or foods as “good,” “bad” or “sinful”." (Ulifeline.org) Although this is not only a problem in America, it is also in Africa, Asia, even Fiji and many other areas. She goes on to prove how most of these locations had no history of this disorder or imagine problems until Western television had broadcasted. According to the article, Bordo states that, Fiji had no cases of the disorder as of 1995; however, “In 1998, just three years after the station began broadcasting, 11 percent of girls reported vomiting to control weight, and 62 percent of the girls surveyed reported dieting during the previous months.” (Bordo)The article "It's Spreading" by Jill Lepore explains why she thinks the way she

She also suggests that although the media creates major epidemics; such as, according to an online article, of how epidemics can be caused allowing it to bring illness and death. According to no-bullying.com, it shares that, "Today, with the increased use of the Internet, children are now being bullied in all locations and at all times.” (nobullying.com) The spreading of diseases is not the only claim to this writing; it is also the spread of stories through the media. In Lepore article, she states, “Reports, cabled and wired and radioed across land and sea, were printed in the daily paper or broadcast, within minutes, on the radio: tallies, theories, postmortems, more to fear.” (Lepore)In both articles, the common ground is how the media can cause negative epidemics but also how the media can be helpful. In Lepore’s writing, a reporter describes, in his report, that Armstrong credited the press, without which, he believed, this particular outbreak of parrot fever would largely have escaped detection. Lepore’s sources thanks to the media, which covered a disease outbreak, they were able to figure out one man’s health