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Media's Effect on Body Image. (n.d.). //Teen Health and the Media//. Retrieved August 17, 2012, from http://depts.washington.edu/thmedia/view.cgi?section=bodyimage&page=fastfacts
 * 1) 90% of the 8 million people with eating disorders are women.
 * 2) Males account for only 5 to 10 percent of bulimia and anorexia cases.
 * 3) In a survey of girls 9 and 10 years old, 40% have tried to lose weight.
 * 4) Most of the women who have an eating disorder such as anorexia are the ages 12 to 25.
 * 5) One study reports that at age thirteen, 53% of American girls are "unhappy with their bodies." This grows to 78% by the time girls reach seventeen.
 * 6) A 1996 study found that the amount of time an adolescent watches soaps, movies and music videos is associated with their degree of body dissatisfaction and desire to be thin.
 * 7) An estimated one thousand women die each year of anorexia nervosa.
 * 8) Fifteen percent of young women have substantially disordered eating attitudes and behaviors.
 * 9) More than 90 percent of those afflicted with an eating disorder are adolescent and young adult women.
 * 10) Eating disorders usually start in the teens but may begin as early as age 8
 * 11) One in every three (37%) articles in leading teen girl magazines also included a focus on appearance, and most of the advertisements (50%) used an appeal to beauty to sell their products.
 * 12) The National Center for Health Statistics estimates that about 9,000 people admitted to hospitals were diagnosed with bulimia in 1994, the latest year for which statistics are available, and about 8,000 were diagnosed with anorexia.
 * 13) While people of all races develop the disorders, the vast majority of those diagnosed are white.
 * 14) Approximately five percent of adolescent and adult women and one percent of men have anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, or binge eating disorder.
 * 15) The commercials aimed at female viewers that ran during the television shows most often watched by teen girls also frequently used beauty as a product appeal (56% of commercials).