If media generated pressure on women (and men) to strive for slimmer and slimmer physiques is so pervasive and all-powerful, then why are rates of obesity steadily increasing. I recently read a study that claimed 35% of American children--the very audience that advertisements like this one are purported to influence--are medically obese. The logic doesn't work out. Weird looking models airbrushed to appear even more freakish is not near the national threat that pizza rolls, couches, and Angus burgers are.
I realize anorexia and bulimia are problems, especially within teenage girl populations, but advertising is not the cause. Why would a picture of some model drive a teenage girl to stick an index finger down her throat when Lindsay, the coolest girl in her sophomore class, has love handles? I think positions like that offered in the article are superfluous and distracting.
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