American media's portrayal of women leads to health problems among young girls and adult women. Images of female bodies are everywhere, and actresses and models are beming younger, taller, and thinner. there are women's magazines that are full of articles telling women that if they can lose those last twenty pounds, they can have it all,promising the perfect marriage, loving children, great sex, and a rewarding career. Due to these types of articles and photos of these extremely thin actresses and models,women then compare and judge themselves by the beauty industries standards of what an ideal women should look like. Therefore, women that would be considered average or below average to the magazine industrie's standards learn to compare themselves to other women, and to compete with them for male attention. This type of behavior is sometimes learned early on in women's younger years. A study performed by Marika Tiggerman and Lavina Clark in 2006 titled "Appearance Culture in 9- to 12- Year-Old Girls" indicate that body dissatisfaction is among nearly half of all preadolescent girls they wish to be thinner, and as a result they engage in a diet or other concepts of dieting, leading to several eating disorders. These eating disorders include, but not limited to anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, or binge eating disorders, Five to ten million young girls and women struggle with eating disorders and borderline eating conditions. Approxomately five percent of young and adult women and one percent of men have anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, or binge eating disorder. These disorders have immense consequences towards these women's health. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, anorexia nervosa was the leading underlying cause of death noted 101 death certificates in 1994, and was mentioned as one of multiple causes of death on another 2,657 death certificates. Each year millions of people in the United States are...