Today’s generation relies on their phones for entertainment, information, and confirmation. With this new generation, a new movement has taken the media by storm. This trend is causing more and more women and young girls to seek validation of themselves by asking for the opinions of others over the internet. Along with this movement, the thriving epidemic of American obesity continues to grow, and women are accepting unhealthy lifestyles in the name of a more inclusive society. Despite these claims of inclusivity, the movement rarely includes everyone. Men, women of color, and the disabled are still marginalized in loo of the more “conventionally attractive white females”. This movement has pushed young girls and our entire society to believe …show more content…
This movement suggests that you can be healthy at any and every size, but this can be misleading. (Worth 2) Obesity has the tendency to lead to a host of health issues including heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and more. This movement presents the idea that obesity has little to no health risks, and that can be dangerous. (Alentola 43) Advertisements have began to follow the movement provide plus size models and products. However, the rise of plus-size models has resulted in a rise of unhealthy habits. When consumers look at advertisements with plus size models labeled as normal, they are less likely to exercise healthy habits. (Mazziotta 3) An experiment was done over the effects of plus size models in advertising on the health decisions women make. They tested split one hundred and sixty-eight women into three groups. They gave each woman a bowl of chocolate along with an advertisement of a plus size woman labeled as either “plus size”, “normal”, or “for women”. Results showed that the women with the advertisement labeled as normal resulted in more chocolate consumption. (Mazziotta 3). Women today are being influenced by what is placed in front of them and declared as normal. This movement has the potential to help women develop unhealthy habits based on the skewed perception of health and normalcy portrayed by body positive advertisements in the media. (Worth