With the obesity rate constatly rising, more and more people are getting diagnosed with deadly diseases. People need to stop eating unhealthy and kick start their exercise regimen. How do you think body image marketing has an affect on teens? What do you think causes teens to have eating disorders? What do you think are some ways to control body image marketing? Do you think that you must have the "perfect" body in order to be accepted in society? If so why or why not? What are the negative effects celebrities have on teeneagers when it comes to their body image? Thanks for taking your time to comment....
Haley Stewart (7:00)
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First off, there is no Perfect body. There never has been there never will be. Everyone has their own flaws. Second, yes people do eat unhealthy, but that is not all of the problem. People don't take care of themselves because they wern't taught to. They were taught bad habits by their familys/friends and yes on advertising. Obesity may be a problem, but being overweight myself, i dont care if my body is "superfit". I think it looks disgusting. Teens mey get affected by copmmercials telling them they have to look like this to be cool, but most have the sense to say "Hey...They are trying to sell me something, I'm not going to listen." Eating disorders are caused by imbalances in the mind triggered by comments and or ads. Its always sad when someone has an eating disorder, but i wont loose any sleep. They did it to themselves, they can get themselves out. In order to be accepted by society...you have to conform so yes the "perfect body" would count...Does anyone have it? NO! Celebrity's by nature influence youth and modern fashion. People will do things their favorite Celeb will do without thinking. I hate those that say they are trying to make america healthier. They are just making it healthier in their eyes. Truth is in the eye of the beholder, even if its terrible to other eyes.
Michael Logue
Society today has affected young teens severely with the perfect body image that must be conveyed in order to be accepted. If teens due follow this regime, they fall down a dark path of eating disorders, but if they don't care what society thinks then they become obese. There should be a balance when you can still eat the things you like but still stay in shape as well. The image marketing needs to start conveying that in order to obtain the perfect body it does not require starving yourself but watching your intake of how much you eat. Instead of having 15 candy bars a day, limit the amount to 2-3, while still exercising and your body will slowly adjust to the more healthy eating habit. If young teens and young adults across America were to slowly adapt to this change, it would not only show with the obesity rate dropping but families would also be saving more money since not buying as much food. This would also even out the standoff; therefore people with eating disorders may find it easier to kill the disorder because they will not see they everyone has to be a beam pole in order to look good.
Fist of all I dont think that anyone has a perfect body!!!!
I think that body imaging has a big effect on teens. Take a look at Paris Hilton or Nicole Richie. They are showing the world that anorexia is ok or being as thin as a string bean. Teens have eating disorders because society is all about how thin women should be. How perfect there bodies should look. If they would just gear towards more of them eating healthy the world would be a better place over all.
I believe to control image marketing they could show that plus size people are just as beautiful. They can be just a sexy if not more because there bones aren't sticking out all over the place.
I don't think that you need to have the perfect body. However I do believe that you should eat health and exercise but the most important thing is to take care of your inner beauty.
Kelly Martinez (700)
I think that body image marketing has a very large effect on teens. I mean we see all these movie stars who are rail thin and realize that they are idolized and that guys/girls really think they are hot. And we realize that we want to be wanted like these movie stars and skinny and everything. I do not think that you need to have a "perfect" body to be accecpted in society. I just think that you are more welcomed with "open-arms" more that people who have weighty issues. Teens have developed many eating disorders in these past years due to the fact that so many Hollywood celibrities are so skinny.
Frankie Gaskill (9:00)
There are so many unhealthy Americans. Even though there are so many that care about how they look not to many do something about it. For me i do work out because i dont want to become "another one of those Americans". If you do care about your body you will realize that you do need to take care of it and watch what you eat and have a health habbit. All Americans can be labed as health if we would just take the time to eat healthy.
Justin Henrichs
Well i think that this is a big problem in America. Kids are way unhealthy. But then again, I don;t think that they are completely to blame for their problem. I imagine that it has a lot to do with their families. If their parents eat crap food, so will they. If their parents are lazy, they will be too. We learn a lot by what we see and are influenced most by those we care most about. I don't think that there is a perfect body. Sure some look better than others, but really who am I to judge. I think the perfect body is one where the person feels good in his or her own skin. He or she doesn't center her life around being some pinnacle of physical perfection. Rather they are just happy with the way they are despite what other people think. There is overweight and there is unhealthy. I think it is fine to be overweight, just be healthy.
Dustin Piercy (9:00)
Well i think that this is a big problem in America. Kids are way unhealthy. But then again, I don;t think that they are completely to blame for their problem. I imagine that it has a lot to do with their families. If their parents eat crap food, so will they. If their parents are lazy, they will be too. We learn a lot by what we see and are influenced most by those we care most about. I don't think that there is a perfect body. Sure some look better than others, but really who am I to judge. I think the perfect body is one where the person feels good in his or her own skin. He or she doesn't center her life around being some pinnacle of physical perfection. Rather they are just happy with the way they are despite what other people think. There is overweight and there is unhealthy. I think it is fine to be overweight, just be healthy.
Dustin Piercy (9:00)
I think they're trying to make everybody think skinny is good. just because you're skinny doesn't mean that you're healthy. People that have eating disorders have them, because they think they have to be skinny or have the perfect body and there is no such thing. Celebrities lead people on, because they want everybody to know they have money and they can do anything with it, even make themselves look pretty. However, they still might not feel good about themselves.
I would have to say that apparantly body image marketing has little pull on americans because of all the obese people walking around. I also do not think anyone should control body imageing, it is part of our freedom of speech and should be left alone by activist groups. People should spend their time and effort in educating children about health and exercise, and setting an example by doing so. Celebrities only affect the people who can't think for thierselves or are shallow. They worship these people because they are popular and "beautiful" but most of them hate who they are, and don't contribute to society unless it is to improve their PR. Teens become to obsessed, and either try to be like them or start eating and get fat because they can't be like them.
Daniel Hooker (7:00)
All these weight loss bills and commercial advertising, all this i think just causes more problems. It puts into peoples heads that that is the perfect body and if you are not that skinny than you are not healthy. I think this is why teens have these eating disorders, one reason is because they think no girl or guy will love them or date them if they are not this skinny model like figure like shown on the tv commericals. Perfect body???? What is the perfect body and what does our society accept? I dunno what the perfect body is and what we except in this world. Everyone has their own opinion on that. Maybe not weighing three hundred pounds and trying to lose weight would make the perfect body. When you look at celebs today our times (16-30's)how many fat celebs are there.. You see these perfect bodys and teens think that they have to loook just like them to get accepted in this world, so they start to develop eating disorders. Yes Americans are Unhealthy.
Shawn Harshbarger
The body image affecs teens becasue it is every where. You have all of these actors that are skinny and going for treatment because they say their bosses need them to be small for the part. If you look at the dolls that every girl gets or boy gets, they are tiny. The boys toys are muscular.
Teens have eating disorders because they do not want to take the time out of their day to excersise or to find the right kind of food for their body.
I think that the people who make pills to loose weight need to be stopped. The only healthy way to be fit or smaller is to eat right and excersise. You have to know that it takes time and the pill that has results in two weeks is full of shit.
I also think that if the world would not be basied on money, moms could stay home and cook the meals instead of always eating on the run because there is no time with work, kids, school, and other activities that we have to do these days.
I think that there is a limit on how big you should get. I do not like looking at the people who have just let them selves go and they have to get a wheel chair to move because it hurts them to walk.
I am small and I will always be small because that is what I perfer.
I know the obesity rate is on the rise, but I don't think you can classify it as an American problem. No one is out there forcing thses people to go to McDonalds. There is a healthy alternative for everything and people need to be wiser when it comes to what they put in their mouths. I don't think body image marketing should have any affect on teens. I'm a teen and I don't feel pressure from advertising. I think people get eatinf diorders becuase they think it will help them slim down and look better. This hardly ever happens. I don't think there is such a thing as a perfect body and so you don't need one to be accepted by society. To be accepted by society, you must accept yourself first and just use what God gave you.
I feel that body marketing has a in increasing affect on teens. As a teen, i wanted to hhave the tone ripped body from looking at magazines. I tried not eating very much and exercising. It just cause you to be unhealthy when your not putting the nutrients into your body. Different advertised fast food joints are partly responsibel for eating dosorders. They see there favorite celebrity eating that certain food and they automatically think that the food ther eating is good for them. Put what the average american looks like. Very few people hve those tall and lean athletic bodies. Put a regular guy that's not in shape to take the pressure off teens to feel that being lean and small is a way to accepted in today's society. No you dont need a perfect body to be accepted. If that were true more than half our nation would not be accepted.
Demaris winston(7:00)
Of course body image marketing has an effect on teens as well as people of all ages, but I don't think that marketing or celebrities are the major cause for obesity in young people. I think the main reason for obesity in kids is their parents. I think there are more and more parents who don't don't have a relationship with their children. They use a TV for a babysitter and, instead of cooking a meal they go to McDonalds or they heat up frozen fish sticks for dinner. I also think parents allow thier children to spend too much time online or in front of the TV. Instead of playing outside where they get exercise, they are inside playing a computer game, or on the computer talking to "who knows" online. I think the only effective way to control body image marketing is to bycott products and shows that promote a certain type of body. I don't think anyone needs to have a "perfect body" to be accepted in todays society, but I have seen many times when an obese person has been ignored because of the way they look. Childhood eating disorders are the major negative effect celebrities have on teenagers when it comes to their body image.
Steve Kidd (7:00)
In today's day and time it's much easier to go to one of the five or six local fast food restaurants for a quick hamburger than it is to go to the one grocery store, pick out your groceries, wait in line to pay, drive home and unload all of your groceries, and then cook the meal you've picked out for dinner that night. Atleast that is what a lot of people today think. American's are much more unhealthy than what they used to be because of the fast food business. There are ways to eat fast food and stay healthy, but who wants a baked potato and side salad over a nice 1/2lb. cheese burger? No one that I know. People would think a lot differently if being unhealthy weren't so acceptable in society today. Of course there are the skinny famous men and women, but they are famous of course, so why would it matter what we normal everyday people look like? We aren't making money to look good.. alot of people may think. Personally I would rather eat the salad and look good, be healthy, and add a couple of years onto my life.
LesLee Watkins (7:00)
i think that marketing has a bad effect on the way it targets teens, it always has a model in the ads, a person that gets PAID to look good. and teens are trying to look like them so they take drastic measures to be like them, even if it includes anorexia or buliemia. Celebrities also have the same effect on teens. Teens seem them as having the perfet body and want it to, so they do what they can to achieve it.
Thomas Wood
I think America's obesity rates are rising quickly. I think parents are letting their childrens' eating habits get out of control. So many children eat constantly throughout the day, and I think this completely unecessary. What ever happened to snack time?!? I think parents should replace childrens' cookies for fruits and vegetables for their afternoon snack. I think it's good to teach kids how to eat right when they young, before their weight skyrockets. McDonalds has also contributed greatly to obesity. It's so convient for parents to go through the drive thru after work, and pick up supper. This could easily became a trend, and could cause obesity. I understand that not all parents have time to cook, but there is no excuse to eat McDonalds everyday. I do believe that many people strive to have the perfect body, and I blame magazines like Cosmo. Celebrities in these magazines are so fake! They're airbushed, nipped, and tucked to make them appear flawless. I'm sure they aren't that perfect in real life. People need to come back to reality and realize that celebs are prepped to look good.
Chelse Lindenbaum (9:00)
Chelse Lindenbaum (9:00)
I think that body image could help reduce obesity in teens in America. More teens would like to look like the models they see on TV and motivate them to work out and lose weight. In this day and age there is a lot more stress in teens. There is more pressure on teens to fit in and look good. They are afraid that if they dont look good then they will be rejected by their peers. If a teen doesn't fit in then some people resort to eating to comfort themselves. On the other side, if someone is really self-concious about what they look they might vomit after every meal, fearing they might lose their figure. I don't think that you have to have the perfect body to be accepted in society. I think personality has a lot to with whether or not you are accepted. Having good looks has some to do with it and it doesn't hurt to be good looking but I don't think that is what all people base their choices on. I think there is no such thing as the perfect body. Since a lot of people look up to celebrities, they want to look like them. Most celebrities are in shape and are at a good weight so some people would go to long extents to look like their favorite celebrity. These extents could be very unhealthy and dangerous.
Kirby Reifsteck (9:00)
I believe that obesity is a big problem in America. There are so many children that are overweight and they end up carring it to adulthood. This is truely not a healthy way to live your life. I think that we sould hit obesity at a young age by limiting the time that they get to play video games or watch TV. Another thing that is starting to effect children is the time they spend on the computer. Parents need to take better care of their children by making them healthy food as well as taking care of themselves.
Justin Henrichs
The rise of obesity is defintitely a problem and America defintiely needs to change the direction we have been going. Teens see adds everyday depicting pictures of models that are unrealistic.I think that teens that are affected by this marketing are those who don't have high self-esteem. We all see these adds, but not everyone is going to start an eating-disorder. I don't beleive it is the marketer's fault, but rather the fault goes to the teen. Other people, who don't have the greatest body, don't run to eating disorders. Instead, they are confident with their bodies and just accept themselves for who they are. America puts too much focus on looks and material items and it is corrupting our nation. You don't need a perfect body to be accepted, you just need to accept yourself first. If you act akward in your body, people will see you as awkward. There is no such thing as a perfect body anyways. Everyone has their own opinions and beauty varies from person to person.
Ryan Lowry(7:00)
I completely agree. Our society makes things like fast food way too available for people. It is sickenating how many fastfood restaurants there are in the world, let alone the United States. I think that the body image marketing is what is causing teens to have eating disorders. They don't think, hey if I eat healthy, I'll look like that girl! It's more like, hey, if I stop eating I'll look like that girl! You DO NOT need a perfect body in order to fit into society. So many people used to be based on what others look like on the outside, but now a days I think people are beginning to understand eachothers imperfections.
Brittney (7:00)
Yes, I believe that Americans are unhealthy. We have no self control towards food.
--Jill Reinhart (noon)
America's unrealistic body image is plagueing teenagers more so than ever before. Popular culture is contributing greatly to disorders like anerexia and bulimia. Teens look up to these superstars and say, "Hey, I want to look like him/her," and it's simply impossible to do so. I think if the media portrayed more realistic-looking people, especially concerning younger viewers and or readers, the prevalence of these disorders would be greatly hindered. Sadly, I doubt any of this will happen because here in America, narcism, especially regarding body image, is widely accepted.
Tristan Cogswell
Body image has a huge impact on a lot of teens. The market for the right image sets standards that are almost unreachable for most. There is no such thing as the perfect body. People can only hope to improve their own bodies. It is senseless to try to model yourself after someone else. Teens try to model their look off of celebrities, and this just leads to eating disorders and supplement use. The celebrities have better access to equipment and trainers.
Zach Burnett
Many Americans are unhealthy and this is the reason for the increase in obesity rates. I do think that many teens try to emulate the movie stars that they see, and this doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing. Many of the stars on television do have good bodies, although some have gotten like that through different methods. I think that is okay to strive to look good like that, as long as you do so in a healthy manner, such as eating the right foods and working out. It is okay to want to make yourself look and feel better, I think we would all like to do that, as long as it is done in a way that doesn't actually hurt the body.
Chris Bohnhoff (Noon)
I believe that society is going for the worst in how they affect teens and their body images. Celebrities are all the time being talked about for anorexia, so not even they have a good idea of a healthy body image. I believe society is giving the teen boys a bad idea on what a woman should look like, and the girls are getting it from both the boys and society that they are too fat here and there or too ugly. I am not saying that teen males don't suffer from this also. I got to witness this situation a lot when I was in high school. I don't know how we can ever control the image marketing with the first amendment.
Bobbi (9:00)
Yes i beleive that Americans are extremeyl unhealthy. The reason i say this is because i am one of them. Everyday seems to be pretty stressful and i just don't have time to properly work out or make myself a healthy meal. Time is money and since everyone seems to be so busy it is hard to live a healthy structured lifestyle.
Blake Eakes Noon
I think that everyone can have a healthy body. I Also believe that a helathy diet and exercise is key to staying healthy. In today's world young girls are being influenced by what they see on television and that to me is extremely unhealthy. Not everyone can have a body like a stick model but everyone can have a fit healthy body. I am the oldest of 3 kids. As I was growing up as a teenager I strived to have the "perfect body" but not everyone is meant to look the same way. You really have to find the perfect body for your height and body build. Yet the sterotypes that every young girl need to look a certain way or they won't be accepted by our world's soceity today needs to stop. I ahve a 13 year old sister and she is constantly asking me if she looks fat and I have to contantly remind her that she looks fine the way she is. For heaven's sake she is already a head taller than me, thanks to my dad, and she is very slim. She wears a size 0 or 1 in jeans yet society is telling her that she is fat! COME ON PEOPLE!!! Is this what advertisers really want to do to our young teens. I wouldn't think so. It makes me wonder if any of these kind of advertising people have any children?? What would they say to their children if they came and said, "Mommy am I fat?" In the teenage years most girls want what ever is being advertised on tv. weither is is clothes, shoes, accessories, or what have you. Advertising people take full advantage of this and try to get teens to have their parents but their products. But what advertisers don't care about and realize is that in the teenage years their bodies are still growing and maturing. So it is completely wrong to make a teenage girl think she is fat or needs to look like a model. That only makes for unhealthy lifestyles for them.
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