Body Change Perri Klass Analysis

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In the article, Perri Klass says the universal truth of the age at which a person in their teenage years is body change, and compared to other things fast body change. Teenagers have to successfully deal with all kinds of comparisons, with their peers, with the related to the time when a person is a child, and with the changed images used in advertising and in the self-advertising on social media. It may be that the fast way the body changes during these years can help teens believe in other kinds of change, including the false promises that different products can significantly change their size and shape. A study published last month in the journal Medical care for children looked at two kinds of risky behavior that are more and more common

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