how might advertising create a climate for eating disorders?

Question

HELP! im doing a school project

Answer 1

Weight is a problem on both ends of the spectrum. Advertisers glamorize thinness. The most glamorous are high fashion models, many of whom are anorexic or bullemic girls in their teens or early twenties. They serve as unrealistic role models and lead some impressionable girls to starve themselves, often with very harmful, occasionally fatal results.

This is such a problem that certain countries like Spain prohibit modeling by women with a very low body mass index. (I forget the exact number.) The fashion industry in the US has rejected suggestions that models have a minimum BMI. Concern for dollars is higher than concern for models' safety and concern for the health of impressionable young women.

Answer 2

When young girls see models in magazines or tv barely 90 lbs and over 5'9" they want to look like them. My daughter is a good example...when she was 12 yrs old she wasn't even 100 lbs. but she would look in the mirror and see a fat person. She saw a distorted version of herself. She was a true anorexic. She became very sick and was like that for about close to 10 yrs. These ads have to stop or be a little more realistic because they are causing some very serious medical problems with young girls.