Perfect Body Advertising Negative Effects On Society

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In this world, ads take over the populations life. Mist body advertisements have a negative impact on how society thinks about themselves. Advertisements that show the "perfect body" cause pessimistic thoughts on personal body image. People will believe their bodies shown on t.v. are the only body that will be accepted as beautiful in our society, when it's not. Everyone is born with a different, natural body shape. Most of, if not all, advertisements photoshop, or inhance, their photos and videos. Even the "perfect Body" isn't perfect! They set up a false advertisement that cause low self-esteem to both females and males. With low self-esteem, come eating disorders. Common eating disorders, like Anorexia and Bulimia, happen to people with

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