Turn on the TV. There's a girl on the weather channel; she is thin. Change channel. A new series appears, the protagonist is a girl with curves and has a handsome boy by her side. Go to the store and get a magazine. The models on the cover do not have overweight looking bodies. The right thing to do would be to blame the media for giving girls the idea of ​​a perfect body and also, demonstrating to them, with the illusion, that a body is what they need to have a beautiful, happy and fulfilling life . But is it really all the media's fault? In today's world, people misunderstand what the media is really about and have started blaming it for the evil in the world. An evil that is changing people's eating habits due to body dissatisfaction, the influence of other people and even competition between them. Currently, society is under the influence of some diseases that are changing the way they eat. People have stopped caring about their health and, instead, are trying to create a false image of what they think is the perfect body. Eating disorders have affected most of the youth in our society, they are diagnosed with anorexia nervosa or bulimia, or as they call them, Ana and Mia. “If eating disorders could be summed up in one word it would be extreme” (Parchi 11). Introducing Ana and Mia. Ana likes to yell at her friends when they want to eat the second helping of cake and won't stop kicking and screaming until she makes their friends stop eating; and maybe even then it won't stop. Mia, is the insatiable friend, who whispers in the ears of her friends: "Why should you eat only a portion of that delicious cake when you can have it all?" but as greedy as she is, Mia wou...... center of card ......dFerguson, Christopher J. "In The Eye Of The Beholder: Thin-Ideal Media Affects Some, But Not Most, Viewers In A meta-analytic review of body dissatisfaction in women and men.” Psychology of Popular Media Culture 2.1 (2013): 20-37. PsycARTICLES. April 4, 2014.Ferguson, Christopher J., et al , Mirror on the Wall: Peer Competition, Television Influences, and Body Image Dissatisfaction." Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology 30.5 (2011): 458-483. Academic Research Completed. Network. April 4, 2014. Forney, K. Jean , Lauren A. Holland, and Pamela K. Keel. “Influence of Peer Context on the Relationship between Body Dissatisfaction and Eating Pathology in Women and Men.” International Journal of Eating Disorders 45.8 (2012): 982-989. Network. April 10, 2014. Parks, Peggy J., Adolescent Eating Disorders: Reference Point Press, 2012. Print.