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Women’s Magazines – That’s Far Fewer Than The 70 Or So Per 100000 Teen Girls With Anorexia

About 5 middleage percent women have eating disorders, and as pointed out by a review of eating disorder research published in June in the journal Clinical Psychology Review.

Eating disorders aren’t only the domain of younger women, Lewis said.

women's magazinesThat’s far fewer than the 70 or so per 100000 teen girls with anorexia. However, two ‘populationbased’ studies in the 1990s estimated that between 2 and 7 per 100000 women between the age of 40 and 59 have anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder characterized by an inability to maintain 85 average percent body weight per height, older women have not been studied as frequently.

Public pushback against the thinness ideal has inspired some ‘youthoriented’ fashion magazines to occasionally feature plus sized models.

Even highfashion Vogue featured three curvy women on the cover of its Italian magazine in June.

women's magazinesLewis thinks so. Another question isSo the question is this. Could consumer pressure lead to similar breakthroughs with older women, especially with the baby boom generation aging? Identical review found only two earlier studies that investigated the link between media consumption and eating disorders in older women.

Another study, published in 2003, found that family pressure was the most influential path to an eating disorder, though perceived media pressure had a small to medium influence as well.

Vogue, or even to magazine covers.

Even in magazines geared toward aging baby boomers, the images collectively present a thin, youthful, ‘wrinklefree’ ideal that’s impossible to maintain later in lifetime. On top of this, if anyway, an analysis of editorial and advertising images reveals that despite proportions of older readers ranging as high as 23 percent, fashion magazines portray women over 40 sparingly. Nary a wrinklewas in sight. You can follow LiveSciencesenior writer Stephanie Pappas on Twitter @sipappas.

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