Essay | Affects of Advertising on Adolencent Eating Disorders

Its late afternoon, and you're sitting in the waiting room of your doctor's office. Bursting with boredom, you pick up U.S. Weekly to see what going on in the world. Immediately you are bombarded with tedious amounts of ads. You see women in bikinis advertising golf clubs, and a big buff man without a shirt on advertising a laptop. Slightly confused, you begin to become self conscious or wonder, "Can I use a laptop without big muscles or with a shirt on"" You immediately start to desire the body, even more than the laptop. Then you ponder the reasoning for such contradistinct advertising. The average American sees over 500 ads each day, and the average teen sees 750, 50% more. (Mediascope) Although few of these ads are selling beauty enhancement products, the ads contain anorexic models and "masculine" men. The...
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