The fashion issue: Body image
Presently, all kinds of media are portraying the 'Perfect' or 'ideal' body image, this kind of content is so common, but has had a large negative effect on the population, maybe even more so than it has a positive effect.
Through things like advertisement, films and other media, everyone is exposed to a inaccurate representation of the ideal look.
Modeling seems to be one of the main sources of this rising problem, depicts attractive people; typically women, portrays them as the right way to look.
These women are stereotypically tall, beautiful, and incredibly thin, which a large percentage of people would agree this is a very unhealthy thing to advertise, especially to other young women; who are the most conscious people about their appearance of any of the world's population.
Some women take their appearance very seriously, and will do just about anything to look perfect, this ranges from plastic surgery to developing all kinds of eating disorders. Media is arguably the main reason these things happen, with over 40,000 plastic surgeries carried out in 2011 in the UK alone, which has risen every year so far.
people; typically women, who make up 90% of the UK's plastic surgery patients, feel pressurized by the media to change the way they look, hopefully to boost their self esteem and the way they appear to other people.
As far as the eating disorders go, coincidentally, the people most likely to develop eating disorders is females between the age of 12 and 25.
All of these things pose their own health risks, and all kinds of people put themselves through this to look good and have a perfect body image, and these figures will likely rise in the following years.
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