Rough Draft - Unit 2 EA 2
Over the years, American model sizes have gotten smaller, and it is devastating women because the standards have gotten impossible to reach. Everyday false images of beautiful women are implanted in their heads. This is giving the idea that they should look like that too. However, real women aren’t models, and look quite different than the expectations set by magazine covers.
Average American women weigh quite more than American models, while also being much shorter. This is upsetting to young women because no matter how hard they try, they’ll never have the body of a model. The article Depleting Body Image: The Effects of Female Magazine Models on the Self-esteem and Body Image of College-age Women states: “The …show more content…
This is a horrible thing to happen to a young women. Deanne Jade explains how not eating can have unwanted consequences in her article The Media & Eating Disorders. “Dieting behaviours are however a risk factor for the other eating disorders, compulsive eating and its variant, bulimia nervosa, an illness in which the sufferer, usually a young woman but many men suffer too – diets, experiences rebound binge eating due to food deprivation and then purges to rid herself of unwanted calories”, she says. This means that if meals are skipped, than later people will eat much more than necessary later that day due to hunger. Paragraph three of Eating Disorders and the Role of Media states “Magazine articles, television shows, and advertisements have also created a social context that may contribute to body dissatisfaction and disordered eating in girls and women”. These websites prove that the photo-shopped models in magazines with “perfect” bodies can cause people to stop eating so they can also have the unrealistically skinny bodies. It is one thing to be a little unhappy with your body, but it is a whole other matter when people develop serious illnesses such as eating disorders. What a terrible thing to happen to today’s …show more content…
This is not a valid counterclaim, because getting in good shape is as never easy as it seems. No matter skinny women get it most likely won’t compare to the tricky art of photo-shop. It doesn't help that when Americans turn on the TV or read magazines, most likely they will see a commercial for a fast food restaurant, maybe even advertised by a muscular athlete. How are women supposed to get into amazing shape if they are knee-deep in fatty burger commercials? Eating these foods will only make them unhappier with the way they look. Kids start seeing these commercials at at a young age according to Sarah Anderson in her article Childhood obesity: It's not the amount of TV, it's the number of junk food commercials Her article reads: “By the time they are 5 years old, children have seen an average of more than 4,000 television commercials for food annually. During Saturday morning cartoons, children see an average of one food ad every five minutes. The vast majority of these ads — up to 95 percent — are for foods with poor nutritional value, the researchers say.” If kids are introduced to this many food commercials, imagine how much teenage girls and women have witnessed. The mixed messages are confusing. There also “merical” fat- melting products advertised in magazines but http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/5-truths-about-fat-burners.html
Over the years, American model sizes have gotten smaller, and it is devastating women because the standards have gotten impossible to reach. Everyday false images of beautiful women are implanted in their heads. This is giving the idea that they should look like that too. However, real women aren’t models, and look quite different than the expectations set by magazine covers.
Average American women weigh quite more than American models, while also being much shorter. This is upsetting to young women because no matter how hard they try, they’ll never have the body of a model. The article Depleting Body Image: The Effects of Female Magazine Models on the Self-esteem and Body Image of College-age Women states: “The …show more content…
This is a horrible thing to happen to a young women. Deanne Jade explains how not eating can have unwanted consequences in her article The Media & Eating Disorders. “Dieting behaviours are however a risk factor for the other eating disorders, compulsive eating and its variant, bulimia nervosa, an illness in which the sufferer, usually a young woman but many men suffer too – diets, experiences rebound binge eating due to food deprivation and then purges to rid herself of unwanted calories”, she says. This means that if meals are skipped, than later people will eat much more than necessary later that day due to hunger. Paragraph three of Eating Disorders and the Role of Media states “Magazine articles, television shows, and advertisements have also created a social context that may contribute to body dissatisfaction and disordered eating in girls and women”. These websites prove that the photo-shopped models in magazines with “perfect” bodies can cause people to stop eating so they can also have the unrealistically skinny bodies. It is one thing to be a little unhappy with your body, but it is a whole other matter when people develop serious illnesses such as eating disorders. What a terrible thing to happen to today’s …show more content…
This is not a valid counterclaim, because getting in good shape is as never easy as it seems. No matter skinny women get it most likely won’t compare to the tricky art of photo-shop. It doesn't help that when Americans turn on the TV or read magazines, most likely they will see a commercial for a fast food restaurant, maybe even advertised by a muscular athlete. How are women supposed to get into amazing shape if they are knee-deep in fatty burger commercials? Eating these foods will only make them unhappier with the way they look. Kids start seeing these commercials at at a young age according to Sarah Anderson in her article Childhood obesity: It's not the amount of TV, it's the number of junk food commercials Her article reads: “By the time they are 5 years old, children have seen an average of more than 4,000 television commercials for food annually. During Saturday morning cartoons, children see an average of one food ad every five minutes. The vast majority of these ads — up to 95 percent — are for foods with poor nutritional value, the researchers say.” If kids are introduced to this many food commercials, imagine how much teenage girls and women have witnessed. The mixed messages are confusing. There also “merical” fat- melting products advertised in magazines but http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/5-truths-about-fat-burners.html