For decades, American media has given many viewers unhealthy relationships with food through backward imagery, commercials, advertisements, and more. The rise of social media in the past few years has made this even worse. Viewers of the media are now able to receive harmful information from unqualified individuals thanks to easy access to platforms like Twitter, Youtube, Instagram, TikTok, homemade blogs, and more. Not only does this accessibility affect those who have social media accounts or who stay connected to the media in general, but people who avoid digital media also fall victim to the destructive messages about the relationship between food and bodies because of their presence everywhere, not just online. 
Negative relationships with food, self-worth, and body image are not just harmful to individuals, but destructive mindsets act as a plague in the modern world. Simple things like online comments and advertisements for chips can add up to have detrimental effects on society.
While digital media is the perpetrator in many of the examples you'll see below, it's also important to recognize that in the age of body positivity, media can be used to promote positive messages just as easily as negative ones. Explore the ways that the media has had a negative influence on society in the past and how there are already chances being taken in the present to restore how media is used in the future.

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