Do you remember the last time you read women magazine? Are you still feel good about myself at the time made the back cover?
Now I'm not talking about food and home magazine, or welfare oriented publications, but a great weekly and monthly magazines that focus on nutrition, exercise, weight loss, beauty, gossip, and fashion.
Chances are you've felt worse about themselves at the end of the magazine than it was when he began to read, that you decided to try a new diet, and that you were at least keeping an eye zanova cream or potion that will help solve problems.
Women's bodies and body parts, used to sell everything from computers to car builders. The bodies shown were younger and thinner in the last 30 years. It is rare that the magazine has a regular makeover feature, encouraging women to actively pursue the "ideal" young, airbrushed, glossy ads that models are actually paying for the magazine.
models of course are airbrushed, and despite the Australian federal government decree in 2008 that the magazines be detected when the images were digitally enhanced, I was struck with any great awareness of the publication. I rarely read the magazine now, though, if I notice particularly outrageous title that I feel compelled to blog about it.
As a young woman I read women's mags, along with my computer science and natural health ones,. Reading is almost expected on the train commute to work
In these years, and for many years, I was very focused on my body's deficiencies and magazines absolutely fed to the uncertainty. The cult of youth is no accident, nor is it a cult of thinness. Both are very economical, driven by advertising products that are likely to deliver the look they advertise anyway.
Last year I read that a popular cosmetic company were sued by the advertising regulator for not revealing that they photographed a model, promoting mascara, wearing false trepavice.Oglas Therefore, it is wrong because the proposed product can be produced lashes like those shown in fotografiji.Tvrtka defense was that "women know how to wear false eyelashes models ".
I was very amused when I read that, because, actually, I did not know. I assumed the company chose the models for their luscious lashes, in the same manner elect stocking models for their beautiful legs and hand models for their beautiful long fingers and nails perfect.
and only in recent years we have become aware that the actors have body doubles for his films, and often have more: one with a perfect bottom, one with a perfect chest, one with a gorgeous ankles. For years the secret that even our most beautiful women - and men -. Composites are a few people
Women who feel insecure about their bodies are more likely to buy beauty products, new clothes, and diet pills, potions, lotions, and programa.Dijeta industry is worth about $ 4 billion annually in Australia alone, and they are selling temporary weight loss!
In the meantime, research tells us that exposure to thin images, young, air-brushed female bodies is linked to depression, loss of self-esteem and develop unhealthy eating habits in women and girls. Because the cult of thinness really began in 1960, women around the globe are starving in the disease, physical and mental, in order to achieve some of perfection which, says the journal, bring us the ultimate happiness.
in Australia in 2008, ten children under five were treated for anorexia. Where young children so they learn to restrict their diet? And why?
Unfortunately, the mothers carry a good deal of responsibility. Our children do not know that we have drunk less than perfect, and the "need to get in shape," they just love their mothers. And when it clearly restricts her mother eats and critically analyzing their bodies, children will naturally copy the behavior.
If you suspect an aberration that a child so young to restrict your diet, consider this: - the 2006 National Survey of young Australians, body image is the third most pressing problem, behind family conflict and concern over alcohol and drugs. But in 2007, 32.3% of respondents put body image in the top three, ahead of family conflict and coping with stress - Australian Medical Association says stick-thin models contribute to the problem because they have a strong influence on body image and self esteem among teens - Around two thirds of new cases of eating disorders occur in women who have dieted moderately - a recent study showed that 1 in 5 12-year-old girl regularly fasted and vomited to lose weight - one of four Australian girls to get plastic surgery.
Eating disorders are currently classified as a mental health disorder, and all mental health disorders more people die from anorexia than any other disorder. Anorexia sufferers are more than five times as likely to die as other people in my age group, it is a fatal disease and it is killing the best and brightest of our young women
.and the girls do not just grow from anorexia, they mature into women who have life-long conflict with the nagging voice of anorexia, telling them not to eat or to be imperfect, and fats. Women with anorexia are more than 12 times as likely to die as other women the same age.
other well-known eating disorder bulimia, suffered about 5% of all women, some studies say 10%. Mostly disturbingly, studies show that only a small percentage of all patients are treated, this is a big hidden costs to thin and "hot ".
My biggest concern with images of women and their interest in these magazines is to show that they represent only one way to a woman: all that matters is looks perfect. Every woman I know has so many layers to her life and who genuinely offended that women are portrayed in ways that are in magazines.
Australian federal government is to establish a body image Advisory Committee to try to get some control over the massively destructive message that women are na.Vlada action aside, I believe that we need to see a cultural change for the mental and physical health of our children. And that change must come from the family. The people at the center of the family is usually mom.
I'd suggest a step would be to stop buying magazines. Just stop it. They are full of exaggerations and half-truths and plain nasty gossip about people they do not know, and causing pain to people. If your child, sister, brother or parent was one of those people, how would you feel about strangers reading these lies and half truths, examining every aspect of your life, you feel better in their loved ones' expense? If you read magazines, funded by the people who make up these lies, causing pain. You can stop a small contribution računaju.Lajav stories are not just there to fill space between ads that contribute to our society anorexic thinking.
If you really want to magazines as you enjoy light reading (and we all need to relax once in a while), look around, make different choices. Many women are sick of the distortions, and they are behind the new magazines that appear on the newsagents' shelves, with content that appeals to many aspects of her life. If you enjoy reading magazines - and there is a real time-out quality reading - take a few minutes to look at some of the new title, you might find something that really speaks to you
.The situation is bad, crazy, need, and those that bring it, we women.