Fiji, the country with the amazing heritage that lasted for over a century had changed from 1995. Television entered Fiji in 1995. Coincidence? I don't think so. After doing some research, I found that Fiji was hugely impacted by TV and the Western images set by developed countries. Even though  Fiji only has 1 TV station which broadcasts from the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand, there has been a huge increase of eating disorders, anorexia and bulimia cases from 1995 till about 1998. The research conducted by Harvard University just 38 months after TV was introduced to Fiji showed that 74% of teen girls felt fat and 15% of them vomited to control their weight. Statistically, these are sad results. Comparing that no one dieted 10 years ago in Fiji, this is a drastic change. In 1999, more people were dieting in Fiji than people in Massachusetts, US were dieting. In an interview for BBC News, Miss Fiji, Ranadi Johnston said, "Slim women are tradionally seen as weak." She also stated that people were telling her to put on some weight. According to Fijian tradition, both girls and boys were supposed to be well-muscled and in good shape. Not only have the teens tried to diet but their attitude has changed a lot. The teen pregnancy rate has gone up too. In my opinion, teens in Fiji think that what the TV portrays as the teens in the Western world is the norm but it's all lies. These teens look up to the actors and actresses and they are hugely impacted by their weight and what they do. They want to be like these actresses or these people in a dieting commercial. This gets into another point about all those fake dieting pills and body building medications that promise these results that you never get to. These actors and actresses that promote all these pills are of course being paid to do so. An actor who gets paid $50 million a year won't go and by dieting pills for $100 a month. They could just get their own personal trainers. The teens in Fiji don't know that. They think if this actor lost all this weight without any dieting doctor or personal trainers help, than I can. They than start starving themselves and doing these extreme diets that won't neccessarily work. Why don't we put normal people on tv to make others feel better about how they look? This is just one of the many negative effects of mass media. How do we change them? Is there a way to reset the status quo of extremely slim people in average looking people?