Media Spurs Unhealthy Body Images

I read an article the other day from CNN that was entitled, "Media May Feed Weight Problems of Teen-Aged Girls."  The article discussed how the media is greatly influencing teen-age body image by what they see on television, in movies, or in magazines.  What girls are bombarded with day in and day out are these well dressed and unusually thin people.  It is no wonder that so many girls and women feel this need to be picture perfect, and will go about doing it in unhealthy ways. It is an almost impossible task to be model thin since the average American model is 5 foot ten, and 107 pounds; whereas an average North American woman is 5 foot four and 143 pounds.