Magazine advertisements send unhealthy signals to teens and women ( eating disorders) There is a lot of controversy dealing with magazines advertisements sending unhealthy signals to young women such as what to wear and how to look. This can influence them to feel insecure about themselves and lose self confident, especially if they don't fit into a certain category. Girls are being labeled, fat, skinny, lame etc. These role models that they encounter in magazines may not to be the best people to look up to. Some of the models that are seen in magazines have strict restriction they must follow such as weight, appearance and what they wear. These strict restrictions aren't always followed in healthy weights such as …show more content…
The type of magazines young girls are reading now a days offer them more instructions on dieting (seventeen magazine) and therefor are significant to the cause of eating disorders. In the United States 20 million women suffer from eating disorders, so of these eating disorder come from the influence on magazines and the how they glamorise thin girls. With eating disorders comes to loss of confidence and young women become insecure about themselves which can have a great affect on what they do. When young women take on extreme diets, they may be lacking the consumption of key nutrients the body needs to run smoothly. Everyday health quotes that eating disorder cause long term effects if they are not treated such as, heart disease, bone loss, muscle weakness and, hair and skin problems. Maria Rago, Phd, Clinical directs says that the majority of eating disorder end in suicide, this is because with eating disorders comes depression. These magazines advertisements that influence young women on how they should look could be causing a bigger problem, long term eating