Eating. Listen to what a survey of girls in 5th through 12th grade discovered. When asked what influenced their idea of how the perfect body should look, 47 said they were influenced by pictures of models in magazines. And heres one more thing to think about. You know those kinds of perfect bodies you see on runways and in advertising . Well, according to the experts, only about 5 of us naturally look like that. Or, put another way, 95 of us, the overwhelming majority, dont look like the models we see. And that has some teens taking drastic measures that can lead to what medical experts call eating disorders. To talk more about this is dr. Megan jones. Shes a psychologist from stanford university. Welcome, doctor. Hi. Thanks for having me. So that were all on the same page, what exactly are eating disorders . Eating disorders are conditions that occur when you are not eating in a healthy way. And what i mean by that is where youre trying to overly control your eating by cutting out foo
Millions of tons of debris were swept out to sea. A lot of it sank, but the rest started floating across the pacific, carried by currents and wind. These types of debris items, these large debris items that float, are starting to show up on our coastline on the west coast. Asma is with noaa, the National Oceanic and atmospheric administration. Its a Scientific Agency that works on everything from weather to coastal and Resource Management to fisheries, really taking a look at how we have an impact on the oceans and what we can do to restore them. Noaa has been tracking debris from japan thats been reaching our shores. Some debris is hard to miss, like a giant dock that washed up in oregon. This motorcycle made it all the way to canada. It was inside a container that floated. Were encouraging people that see tsunami debris to report it to noaa at disasterdebris noaa. Gov. So if this is an unusual type of debris that may have characteristics, like possible japanese writing on it, or spec
Make waves. In march of 2011, catastrophe struck japan. An earthquake triggered a tsunami. The giant wave of water washed away houses, cars, and even entire towns. Millions of tons of debris were swept out to sea. A lot of it sank, but the rest started floating across the pacific, carried by currents and wind. These types of debris items, these large debris items that float, are starting to show up on our coastline on the west coast. Asma is with noaa, the National Oceanic and atmospheric administration. Its a Scientific Agency that works on everything from weather to coastal and Resource Management to fisheries, really taking a look at how we have an impact on the oceans and what we can do to restore them. Noaa has been tracking debris from japan thats been reaching our shores. Some debris is hard to miss, like a giant dock that washed up in oregon. This motorcycle made it all the way to canada. It was inside a container that floated. Were encouraging people that see tsunami debris to
A lot of it sank, but the rest started floating across the pacific, carried by currents and wind. These types of debris items, these large debris items that float, are starting to show up on our coastline on the west coast. Asma is with noaa, the National Oceanic and atmospheric administration. Its a Scientific Agency that works on everything from weather to coastal and Resource Management to fisheries, really taking a look at how we have an impact on the oceans and what we can do to restore them. Noaa has been tracking debris from japan thats been reaching our shores. Some debris is hard to miss, like a giant dock that washed up in oregon. This motorcycle made it all the way to canada. It was inside a container that floated. Were encouraging people that see tsunami debris to report it to noaa at disaster debris at noaa. Gov. So if this is an unusual type of debris that may have characteristics, like possible japanese writing on it, or specific identifiers, like a license plate, those
Wind. These types of debris items, these large debris items that float, are starting to show up on our coastline on the west coast. Asma is with noaa, the National Oceanic and atmospheric administration. Its a Scientific Agency that works on everything from weather to coastal and Resource Management to fisheries, really taking a look at how we have an impact on the oceans and what we can do to restore them. Noaa has been tracking debris from japan thats been reaching our shores. Some debris is hard to miss, like a giant dock that washed up in oregon. This motorcycle made it all the way to canada. It was inside a container that floated. Were encouraging people that see tsunami debris to report it to noaa at disasterdebris noaa. Gov. So if this is an unusual type of debris that may have characteristics, like possible japanese writing on it, or specific identifiers, like a license plate, those are clues as to, you know, this might be an item that is actually from the japan tsunami. But th