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Eating disorders steal health and peace of mind. Victims need to be helped in every way possible, and there are many ways to do so. Anorexics and bulimics are more involved and further into their respective disorders because of certain websites. Thinspiration and PrettyThin are eating disorder internet factories for anonyomous users who look for consolment and encouragement to continue wasting themselves away.

There are proposed bills in Congress to shut down, ban or at least filter pro ana and pro bulimia websites. However, it is not just websites that make the number of anorexics and bulimics rise. The media, commercials and ads are at fault here also. What better place than the Red Carpet or on T.V. to flaunt too skinny models and celebrities to the public eye? Famous people like Kiera Knightly, Nichole Richie, Angelina Jolie, Paris Hilton and Mary Kate Olsen help set the stage for a distorted body image. It's not fair for normal, healthy people to be pressured to develop an eating disorder to look as unhealthy and unrealistic as a real life Barbie would be.

People in Isreal had the smart notion to ban the use of underweight models in advertisments and commercials. I may not be able to pass a law to do something like that in America, but I can speak out against it all. If people saw images of how disturbingly thin you would get, people would be less inclined to just start starving themselves or vomittng up their food.