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Does the media put too much pressure on young people to be thin?
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Does the media put too much pressure on young people to be thin? I believe this statement is true; the media puts so much pressure on everyone to have a perfect figure that opinions on our own body are even worse than usual. An image of the ideal body has been painted and we are constantly bombarded by it. This "perfect body" is a result of vigorous training and gym work as well as a strict diet issued by a personal nutritionist. Any working person would have neither enough money or enough spare hours in the day to spend as much time in the gym as is required too look like these movie stars or rich kids. Such an impossible target is a constant reminder of our average unsightly bodies and we are permanently ashamed of our own reflection. To make matters worse on many occasions the pictures we see are...
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