Female body shape

As a society has increasingly portrayed the notion of beauty via social media and celebrities, the action has gradually altered the perception of people to believe that thinness is the definition of beauty, which could cause teenagers to encounter with eating disorders as claimed in Dugan’s article. However, the purpose of this essay is to identify illogical fallacies in the article “Eating disorders soar among teens - and social media is to blame”, which was written by Emily Dugan and published…

Fellow Peers, In the past 30 years, there has been a significant increase in childhood and adolescent obesity in Canada. Consequently, this may result in an increase in the chronic health problems of our future population. There are numerous reasons behind childhood and adolescent obesity such as sedentary lifestyles, poor nutritional education, and lack of proper role modelling. Unhealthy lifestyles during childhood are an important issue to tackle because obesity at a young age strongly…

Actually, food industries use every available technological technique to adapt their products into the preferences of children; creating campaigns that influence children's habits and diets; yet, this impact can be devastating. "Increasingly, fast food conglomerates are using toy tie-ins with major children’s motion pictures to try to attract young people. Nearly 20% of fast food ads now mention a toy premium in their commercials" (Committee on Communications, 2006). Unfortunately, childhood…

To continue with the movement of inclusion in the fashion industry, legendary brand J. Crew casted 64 strangers to model their SS17 RTW collection. Creative Director, Jenna Lyons decided to go a different route with this show in order to showcase the “normal” everyday people and J. Crew consumer. While we are custom to see super models take over the catwalk, things were different this time around. Instead, we saw teachers, bloggers, photographers, artists, activists and students whose ages…

having different self perceptions and are using body…

In this article “Childhood Obesity: Is it Abuse?” by Abigail Darwin it begins by addressing childhood obesity rates and how they are rapidly increasing across the states, forcing courts and child welfare system to deal with the major issue of childhood neglect. States have to try to help all kids with obesity so it doesn’t become a harmful factor of their growth, but they also have to figure out if taking the child out of a family environment is a good idea. Today’s research shows almost 66% of…

In the first episode I watched called, “The Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” there were three suspects that killed one man. One was a white female with orange hair, average build, another was black man who was gay, bald, average build and the last suspect was a white male, chubby build, and wears glasses. In the second episode, “The Gamer in the Grease,” the suspect was a white male, balding…

Analysis: Accepting our own natural bodies and not letting the fashion industry get into our minds of being perfect should be one of the main aspects that us as women…

should be promoting beauty on all sizes, colors and races. Models should not have a minimum weight limit because it puts a border line on beauty, lowers self-esteem and even though it helps prevent eating disorders it also supports society’s negative body image views. Everyone has beauty, therefore the number on the scale cannot define an individual. By putting a minimum weight limit on models, you are putting a border line or limit on beauty. Honestly, beauty has no limits or a true…

Hadley, Hair, and Dreisbach (2010) reviewed fifty-one obesity programs targeted towards participants zero to nineteen years of age and discovered program characteristics that lead to success. Some characteristics of successful programs include having a specific versus comprehensive approach, implementing therapy for participants and their families, including skill-building elements in curriculum, and implementing long term (greater than six months) physical activity programs (p. 2). Unsuccessful…