Janet Polivy And C. Peter Herm Article Analysis

Janet Polivy and C. Peter Herman, “Causes Of Eating Disorder,” Annual Review of Psychology. (Annual 2002): p187.
This article talks about the causes of eating disorders. It states how it may be biological, self esteem, experiences that may lead to eating disorders, family influences. The article starts off by talking about how for a long time it’s been a common debate to which one of these characteristics has contributed the most as the leading cause to eating disorders. Then it goes into detail describing if they are to blame for eating disorders, or whether or not they actually is a correlation between the cause and disorder. This article is more research because it tries to find the relationship between the cause and effect, and does

refer a lot to the passed on how it has increased and changed since its early discovery.

Motluk, Alison. (11 Aug. 2001) "Born under a thin star." New Scientist, p. 6.
This article talked about how women born in april are most likely to become anorexic. It was written based on a theory with evidence that there is a correlation between an eating disorder and a woman's date of birth. This article was more of an theoretical article.

These article would not be beneficial for my argument because in the first article, Janet Polivy and C. Peter Herman, “Causes Of Eating Disorder,” Annual Review of Psychology, although they do believe media could play a vital roles, to its distortion of reality of body image, the article believes there is correlation to media causing eating disorders. While in Motluk, Alison. (11 Aug. 2001) "Born under a thin star." New Scientist, it was more based on a theory of a woman's date of birth. I needed an article to prove media as one of the real major causes for eating disorders. I would not depend on these articles.