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Exam (Grad Credit): How Parents, Schools, and the Media Contribute to Adolescent Eating Disorders Adolescent girls have always “fallen through the cracks.” As a middle school teacher I see the damage that a look-obsessed, media -saturated, “ female poisoning” culture has on my students. They feel valued only for their appearance. Girls place more importance on popularity, sexual experience, and “fitting in “ than on academics, sports, or personal health. For the exam I choose to successfully complete reading two books. I read the book Wasted: a memoir of anorexia and bulimia by Marya Hornbacher. I also read the book Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher. It seems that everywhere I look, every time I turn on the TV, food is a constant. I have traveled all over the world, and I think that the US is the worst country in terms of diet pills, thinness and liposuction- our wealth makes us eager to pay someone to perform surgery to suck fat away because we ate too much and are too lazy to go to the gym. American’s want a quick fix, eternal thinness but only if we can still super size our meals and overindulge 24/7. I was shocked to see the latest statistic reported by People Mag