Coronary heart disease is the most common type of heart disease, killing more than 385,000 people annually ("Heart Disease Facts",2013). ... Most importantly, avoid smoking, which would also help the decrease in many other different types of diseases ("Heart Disease Facts", 2013). ... However, adopting healthy behaviors is much easier when there's supportive community norms. ...
The media presents society with unrealistic body types promoting people, especially women, to look like them. ... This "normal- body type of being thin that the media imbeds in women's heads is very unrealistic, and for most women impossible. ... "" - Lindsay Fowler Grade 10 The media keeps dispensing these images, but they don't realize the negative effects this so-called "perfect body type- has on women. ... A great number of people develop eating disorders because of how the media portrays thin as being the cultural norm. ... The media should give us a more realistic body...
