READING AND RESEARCHING

Reading and Researching

Reading and Researching

Survey of magazines related to 'Teen body Obsession' DVD

The six DVD selected are as follows:

Teen Truth: An Inside Look at Body Image

Teen-age Fantasies: An Adult Documentary

Teen Yoga

Body Without Soul

American Teen

Body of War

“Teen Truth: An Inside Look at Body Image” seems to be impossible to overcome this typically enhanced notion of what beauty is and isn't. Any good solution to the damaging effects on false body imagery must reduce the stress on women who feel that they need to look like a model, encourage family support, and promote good health. As stated before the media has its way in convincing women and teenage girls that the ideal body type is that of a thin model.

On the other hand, “Teen-age Fantasies: An Adult Documentary” shows that eating disorders are complex and have multiple causes. It is true that our culture, with the idealization of thinness and the "perfect body" image contributes to these disorders. The most commonly known cause of eating disorders is the social pressure to be thin. As a result of this idealization of thinness and the "perfect body" image women and teenage girls intensely dislike their bodies. This "rail thin" image creates stress on women by sending them the wrong messages.

“Teen Yoga” shows that women believe that if they do not fit this image they are not normal and furthermore not healthy. Naturally, this may cause people to develop an eating disorder. The benefits of reduced stress on women would allow them to feel confident about themselves. Women would no longer have to worry about the added pressures that the media portrays as "beautiful." Not everyone is fortunate enough to be 5'7 and weigh 115 pounds. Every individual is built differently.

“Body Without Soul” protrays overall claim is this; no curriculum in the world will stop children from struggling with body image. It seems as if everyone is always talking about dieting and weight.

In “American Teen”, people look at images of thin attractive people every day on television and in magazines, but rarely does one see any larger women shown as attractive. People are exposed to hundreds of diet commercials each year that tell one if he/she wants to be pretty, popular, and successful, one must be thin. Body image primarily affects women and teenage girls. The media pushes an unnatural body type telling women and teen girls that to be beautiful one must look like a thin model. To do this, the media must administer this change through advertisements by portraying the human body using various body types. There should be real women in magazines and on television, meaning women with flaws. Real women with pimples and not perfectly straight, bright, white smiles. Lastly, “Body of War” provides confidence to the teens with braces or the "zit-faced" ones. Real women are the females condemned for the slightest imperfection.

Closer reading of two magazines

There are two magazines which I chose. Teen Magazine is the one which appeal to me, however Dialectic Magazine did ...