For some grown, mature, and developed women, flipping through a magazine full of perfectly polished men and women means nothing more than some extreme advertising. However, for many growing girls it means much more than that. Henry Farid, a Dartmouth professor of computer science who specializes in digital forensics and photo manipulation, agrees. “The more and more we use this editing, the higher and higher the bar goes. They’re creating things that are physically impossible,” he told ABC News in August 2009. However they are becoming more possible to achieve, with the help of plastic surgery. “We’re seeing really radical digital plastic surgery. It’s moving towards the Barbie doll model of what a woman should look like — big breasts, tiny
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The issue starts for girls in their early teens, but continues to work on their self-esteem well into adulthood. The key takeaway here is that the obsession with thinness is embedded in the core of most messages directed at women, not just the pages of a certain magazine (Duca). Quick weight-loss diets or fad diets are another commonly used strategy for young women to attempt to lose weight. Pills, cleanses, waist-trainers, and many more outrageous products have been advertised to promise weight loss. Common fad diets include the South Beach Diet, Paleo, Hollywood Diet Juice Cleanses, Atkins, Cabbage Soup Diet, Nutrisystem, Weight Watchers etc.... Even if these diets do result in rapid weight loss, which they often do not, the consequences can be detrimental to both mental and physical health. Oftentimes these diets are unsustainable and lead to eventual weight gain, most end up weighing more than they did when the started (soc). Many celebrities and social figures support these diets and promote them through media. Their prime demographic to advertise to are young women who are more susceptible to fast gratification. These unhealthy diets appeal to them because they answer the questions most teenage girls have: How do I get the body that the models have in the magazines and in the media? The answer to that question is definitely not fasting and intaking dangerously low amounts of food. Although these fad diets that are being pushed upon them seem to work with quick results, they do more harm than good. This harm lasts more than a day, or a month, the effects of an unhealthy relationship with food lasts a lifetime. Whether those suffering come out of it or not, it sticks with them everyday. Something as simple and unimportant as photoshop should not be the cause of the rapid decline of women’s body
The issue starts for girls in their early teens, but continues to work on their self-esteem well into adulthood. The key takeaway here is that the obsession with thinness is embedded in the core of most messages directed at women, not just the pages of a certain magazine (Duca). Quick weight-loss diets or fad diets are another commonly used strategy for young women to attempt to lose weight. Pills, cleanses, waist-trainers, and many more outrageous products have been advertised to promise weight loss. Common fad diets include the South Beach Diet, Paleo, Hollywood Diet Juice Cleanses, Atkins, Cabbage Soup Diet, Nutrisystem, Weight Watchers etc.... Even if these diets do result in rapid weight loss, which they often do not, the consequences can be detrimental to both mental and physical health. Oftentimes these diets are unsustainable and lead to eventual weight gain, most end up weighing more than they did when the started (soc). Many celebrities and social figures support these diets and promote them through media. Their prime demographic to advertise to are young women who are more susceptible to fast gratification. These unhealthy diets appeal to them because they answer the questions most teenage girls have: How do I get the body that the models have in the magazines and in the media? The answer to that question is definitely not fasting and intaking dangerously low amounts of food. Although these fad diets that are being pushed upon them seem to work with quick results, they do more harm than good. This harm lasts more than a day, or a month, the effects of an unhealthy relationship with food lasts a lifetime. Whether those suffering come out of it or not, it sticks with them everyday. Something as simple and unimportant as photoshop should not be the cause of the rapid decline of women’s body