Account Deleted By User First I have to say I'm just a girl from Switzerland and this is just my opinion and observation trough a few years, this is NOT based on solid investigations.  Second, I really love America and the culture and people thre. This said, here in Switzerland are so much anorexics I see everyday,  5.3 % are anorexic here (old and young) and because I live here I see mostly underweight girls myself. Girls who also love america, but eat like an apple for lunch, in school or even at work!   What has evetything to do with each other? Because the girls I know always consume american shows on YouTube or TV,which are highly entertaining but can't help but notice also the obesity epidemic, and how the people in this shows or documentaries or YouTube are familiar and ,,chill" with being XXL, like this is something that could happen to anyone and nothing to worry about. (For example the body positivity movement or fat YouTubers or 600lbs life etc, the news ect.)   they project it on themselves and how horrifying it would be and become even more afraid of being fat. I'm aware that anorexics have something in their mind already programmed to be afraid of gaining weight and has not only to do with the environment, but this influence doesn't help. And I don't mean the extremly thin ones, I mean the extremly fat ones and how they act like they are so beautiful and brave and being fat is the most natural thing in the world. THIS scares anorexics all over the world, I would say, and is extremly dangerous and delusional.  The americans news when they speak about obesity epidemic, the girls (somethimes boys) can't help but become afraid that this epidemic will come over to us, Switzerland, and this was my short point of view how fat strange people in america affect the eating disorders from young people here in my environment.  And obese people in Switzerland don't act like this, they know they need to lose the weight, so the rising fear of fat has to come from somewhere?  Have a nice day<3 and please don't take this as an insult, please tell me if I get this all wrong or something, like said, it's just a guess.