... Some people argue that a commercial must have someone attractive that has a perfect ten figure in order to attract people. For example when there is a beer commercial on TV. very rarely do you see a five hundred pound woman serving a nice cold beer over the counter. Its the perfect woman that does it five foot ten inches ... and high schools are now on very strict diets because in there minds they have to look like Britney or some other perfect bodied person on TV. And if you don't look like them your not cool. They think that guys are not going to find them attractive because they don't...

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... . Parents are victimized by society--working to provide for their families and spending less time with their children as a result. Having children watch TV, or play video or computer games, is an easy way to keep them occupied when parents do not have the time to provide supervision. ... Although the media can't be blamed completely for the actions of children, it is obvious that young minds are influenced by what they see on TV or in a game. One of the biggest issues concerning television watching and children is its connection to childhood obesity. In an observation, twelve major ... h...

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... from the moment most of us are able to walk and speak. We learn it through Saturday-morning cartoons, prime time TV and movies. Have you ever seen a fat person in a movie who wasn't evil, disgusting, pathetic or lampooned?" in TV there are lots of humor that relies on body size and lots of joked are made from fat people. Larger size ... women wont be given romantic roles. Usually fat people are given negative roles. But what can be done about it? How these misconceptions, which are coming form TV shows, can be stopped? TV should stop humor that relies on body size. Larger size women sho...

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... that are very calorie dense foods. In today's society there isn't a block where you can't find fatty foods and high sugar foods. Fattening foods are advertised on every radio stations, TV broadcasting shows and commercials. It makes it hard to avoid eating McDonalds. Today there are many companies and franchises that sell fast food products. These foods will typically be high ... blood pressure, asthma, and other serious illnesses. This is extremely sad because these diseases mean that children will have shorter life expectancies than their parents. The show explained that watching TV i...

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... are anorexic or have some other eating disorder. In the United States people watch more than twenty-one hours of TV each week, and also look at many magazines, and a lot of movies which come out every year. In the TV shows and movies all the characters are portrayed as good looking fit people who have everything they need in life, such ... as expensive clothes, and they always seem to look good even as they are waking up! According to the Health magazine Factoid, April 2002 42% of female TV network characters are underweight. But then the villains of the show or the stupid characters ar...

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... presents society with unrealistic body types promoting people, especially women, to look like them. From the magazine racks in the local store overflowing with magazines highlighting beautiful women, to the TV commercials featuring tall, thin women promoting a certain product, the media is everywhere one looks, portraying images of unhealthy body types for girls to look up to. "I wake up to the ... radio, eat breakfast to the TV, drive to school to the radio, use computers for schoolwork, and read magazines and watch TV before bed " the media is always there. I definitely think that the...

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... article "Fat Kids: What's really to blame?" By Parents Magazine states, "The report says part of the reason for this may be that children who watch less TV are replacing TV time with other sedentary activities like reading books and playing board games." Even if a child isn't sitting in front of ... a TV they are still at risk for obesity due to the lack of activity. Yes it is more mentally stimulating for your child to read a book, but if your child consumes ... ...

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... that to be considered beautiful, one must be thin. Many young women compare themselves to the anorexic models they see on TV. With the increasingly thinner ideal body, women's dissatisfaction with their body images has increased eating disorders significantly. TV commercials send messages telling society what is considered attractive. It is no accident that thinness is promoted as an essential criterion of ... minds of people within society as it defines popular culture. The desires and attitudes of our youth are corrupted by unrealistic demands that they view on television. Society sho...

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I agree with the researchers that point out the fact that we now live in a "food toxic environment . " All over America, we are bombarded by TV commercials advertising for the tastiest, cheapest and usually unhealthiest foods you can find. Kids and adults alike are targeted through commercials and advertisements to go out and buy these foods ... prices are low too, which keeps the parents coming back. Often celebrities will endorse these foods, which makes them even more desirable. The celebrities you see eating the food on TV aren't obese though, so consumers don't think the food will make...

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... the result, unhealthy meat comes to our table. People are struggling with health problems such as obesity and health diseases. Today adults and children are more addicted to fast food. TV, ads, and magazines show people how easy it is to cook with pre-cooked meals. Television is just as crucial a factor in the rise of obesity in children. In 1987 ... , an average of 225 commercials was shown during Saturday morning cartoon hours. By the mid-90s, that had jumped to 997. The captive power of TV is contributing to another piece of the unhealthy environment: the drop in physical activity, es...

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DYING TO BE THIN Is the world of the famous pressuring us to be thin? With one touch of a button, all we have to do is turn on the TV and all we see are our favorite stars thin and beautiful. Then we have others who need to gain weight for "special" movies that need the character to gain weight. ... a time. Alexandra Paul (Baywatch) also said she suffered from a similar eating disorder a few years ago and so did Susan Dey. When Marie Osmond and her brother, Donny, helmed their own TV show in the late '70s, chubby little Marie was almost destroyed when a producer took her aside and told her s...

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... such an emphasis on being thin that has the biggest influence. What is wrong about this is that society does it full knowingly. A great deal of what we see on TV, in magazines, and in movies relates to appearance. All the people you see in the media are beautiful, successful, and most impressionable of all, thin. According to recent statistics stated ... in Health Magazine, thirty-two percent of female TV network characters are underweight, while only five percent of females in the U.S. audience are underweight ("What" 3). This is telling us that those involved in deciding what to put o...

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... car or at the game. Children learn a bad habit of eating all day long. They pack on extra calories they really don't need. Overeating causes obesity. A sedentary lifestyle of watching TV, playing video games, and computer surfing reduces the amount of calories children burn throughout the day causing weight gain. Parents continue to feed their children three meals a day plus snacks ... (while snacking), and go to bed. I noticed this in my extended family when I went home last November. They don't make time for exercise, but always make time for snacks and TV. One day I witnessed, my nep...

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... has agreed to take junk food out of schools and vending machines are slowly being taken out of schools across America. Now, the focus is to limit the advertisements on TV. Some European countries, such as Sweden, have banned advertisements directed at children under the age of 8. Similar propositions have been made to make it less common for young children to ... be exposed to the evils of advertisements. Unhealthy foods are being forced on children constantly. They are on TV. They are in school. They are eaten by children around the world. What is the result? A recent list showed that ...

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... that's not funny whatsoever. Every corner you turn there will be a fast food advertisement. The fast food companies advertise their products to children by putting their products in TV commercials and implementing them in TV shows. The possible negative health effects of eating fast food is getting diabetes, heart disease, andor even death. In the article "If You Pitch It, They ... ...

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... such a television stars, athletes, actors, pop stars, and models. What many people do not realize is that looking good is a full-time job for most celebrities. When you're watching a TV show and a commercial for McDonald pops up, that makes you want to go out and get something to eat right? But then you see a weight loss commercial and all these ... to start dieting and lose all the weight. You start eating less, skipping meals, and exercising like crazy, just to look like all the super skinny people you see on TV and in magazines. When in reality, those models weigh 23 percent less tha...

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... they will survive. Nutritionists are occasionally hired to help design a healthy eating plan that the teen can follow. The subject of media can begin to be discussed when talking about TV and how teens are constantly exposed to the "perfect body" of actors and actresses. To begin off, the image of the overweight person seems to always be depicted ... to look like them. But instead of actually taking the product, they will resort to starvation and purging rather than actually purchasing the products. Another concern of eating disorders and TV is the growing phenomenon of reality shows an...

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... that children would be the restaurant franchise's new target customers. Despite the internet is popular today, television is still the important medium for children's advertising. Kroc discovered if a child liked TV commercials, they would convince their parents to bring them to McDonald's. This intuition led him to invest a lot of time and money in using ... TV commercials to market McDonald's to children. A typical American child spends about twenty-one hours a week watching television. Outside of school, they spend more time watching television than any other activities. ... ...

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... Wolf writes, in her book The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women; "advertising is a 130 billion dollar a year industry. The average American watches 30 hours of TV a week and spends 110 hours a year reading magazines. That adds up to 1500 ads daily- (45). Everywhere you look, there is a diet product or an exercise plan that will get ... wouldn't be allowed in front of camera if she was a size 10. Comedian Margaret Cho was offered to have her own sitcom in the early 90s. The producers of the TV station told her that in order to progress with the show, she being a wom...

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... usually eating disorders start. Teenagers are under a lot of pressure to be thin and they feel they need to fit in the size clothing of a model or famous people on TV. Teenagers get this feeling from their peers, their families and the society of how they really should look. Teenage girls grow up feeling that a Barbie doll is the way all ... only way they can be accepted and fit in this world, are if they are thin and look like all the models and movie stars that are always shown on TV or in magazines. When we see how models and famous people look; we feel depressed, stressed, we feel i...

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... and bulimia by Marya Hornbacher. I also read the book Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher. It seems that everywhere I look, every time I turn on the TV, food is a constant. I have traveled all over the world, and I think that the US is the worst country in terms of diet pills, thinness and liposuction- our wealth makes us ... in a television series. She had a cheerleader body- cute and curvy. She looked healthy and had curves. The Cosmo article made the statement that when re-runs of Friends are on TV Jennifer and the rest of the cast look "slightly pl...

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... exposed to hundreds of food commercials. Sitting and watching these commercials promotes snacking, and snacking promotes obesity (Childhood Obesity: Causes and Prevention). People who spend a significant amount of time watching TV sharply increase the risk for obesity. Instead of sending an overweight child out to run and play, adults allow them to sit and eat. Homework is the number one excuse ... households; the competing schedules of parents and children often do not allow for a get-together at dinnertime. Experts now believe that every time a child sits down in front of the TV with ...

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... them is well known. Blood vessels can only take a definite amount of fat before they start to get blocked. And, moreover, I try not to get frantic whenever I turn on the TV or read a magazine. Ads about obesity and loosing weight are everywhere, showing you thin, slim girls that surely do not eat at all in order to keep those perfect bodies ... be avoided at any cost. To sum up, I do consider myself a healthy person: I have a good diet, I make plenty of exercise, I watch out for excesses, and I do not get obsessed by TV ads and magazine articles. I keep in mind that nobody but myself ca...

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... watch, and in everyday like they are often left out of social groups because of their weight, often only finding friends in other obese people. "Bombarded with magazine covers, billboards, TV commercials and movies celebrating thinness and beauty may wreak havoc on the mind or a woman whose self-esteem is already low."(Browne 1993) Women who fall victim to anorexia become ... is 19". Obviously these are unreal expectations for anyone person to meet. Women have to realize that these women are a part of something that isn't entirely real, these women on TV and in magazines are born with t...

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... 13, most teen girls go through body changes that are natural and necessary: their hips broaden, their breasts develop, and suddenly the way they look may not match girls in TV or magazine ads. Unhealthy and Healthy Diets Any diet on which you eat fewer calories than you need to get through the day without feeling like you're going to ... you turn around, someone is talking about dieting. Every tabloid at the corner convenience store has the details of the hottest celebrity's fad diet. Every time you turn on the TV, there is another infomercial raving about the liquid diet plan or diet s...

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