Nutritionists and health experts blame media scrutiny and the impossible standards imposed by the media culture for the ubiquity of eating disorders among young women today. Sharon Lamb, a professor of psychology at St. Michael's College in Vermont, commented to USA Today that the media is subjecting Simpson to a "public shaming for putting on a little weight."
Lamb, who is also the co-author of Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes, believes that the media sends mixed and potentially damaging messages to young women in the way that they "criticize stars who have anorexia, which is a disorder, and then in the same issue they shame a star who puts on a little weight." (Source: www.thecelebritycafe.com)
Labels: media, healthy-weight, body-image
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