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The Effects of Thin Models on Today's Teenagers The media's obsession with painfully thin fashion models has supposedly contributed to the growth in eating disorders among young girls, according to the British Medical Association. There are an estimated 60,000 people in Britain with eating disorders. 20% of these die, 40% never recover and 90% are female. The report brought out by the association says the models and actresses in the 1990s commonly had body fat levels as low as 10% - the average for a healthy woman is 22% to 26%. Is it because of this that children as young as 5 or 6 are being treated for eating disorders? Women's magazines have been under attack for years, accused of promoting unrealistic body images of exceptionally thin models. Should they be made to have "more realistic body shapes" or are thin models what fashion needs to stay at the top? Editor for Vogue, Alexandra Shuman is...

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