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Women's magazines - Good or gossip?

Can you remember the last time you read a women's magazine? Did you still feel good about same at the time he reached the back cover?

Now I'm not talking about a food magazine and home, or a publication focusing on welfare, but the glossy weeklies and monthlies that focus on diet, exercise, weight loss, cosmetics, gossip, and fashion.

The Most likely you felt worse at the end of the magazine than it did when I started reading it, he had decided to try the new diet, and at least maintain an eye out for a new cream or potion to help you solve your problems.

women's bodies and body parts are used to sell everything from computers to the cars to the builders. The bodies displayed have been younger and thinner in the last 30 years. It is rare that a magazine does not have a shift function regular image, encourage women to actively seek the "ideal" of the young, airbrushed, models in the glossy advertisements that pay for the magazine.

The models, of course, are airbrushed, despite Australia's Federal Government decree in 2008 that the journals must disclose when the images are digitally enhanced, I have not been beaten with any great awareness that disclosure. I rarely read this magazine now, however, unless I can have a title that I feel particularly outrageous forced to blog.

As a younger woman who read women's magazines, along with my computer and natural health, reading almost expected travel train to work.

In those years, and for many years, I was very focused on the shortcomings of my body and magazines absolutely fed the insecurity. This cult of youth is not an accident, nor is the cult of thinness. Both are from all economic, driven by advertising products that are unlikely to provide the appearance announcing anyway.

Last year I read a popular cosmetics company was being sued by the advertising regulator, and not released Make your pictures model, the promotion of mascara, wearing false eyelashes. The announcement was misleading because it suggests both that the product may cause tabs as shown in the picture. The company defense was that "women know how to use the models of false eyelashes."

I was very funny when I read that, because, really, I did not know. I figured that the company chose models for their delicious tabs in the same way they choose models storage for their beautiful legs and models of the hand of his lovely long fingers and perfect nails.

And only in recent years years we that the actors have body doubles of his films, and often have several: one with a perfect background, one with perfect breasts with a magnificent ankles. During years, a secret that even our most beautiful women - and women - are composed of several people.

Women who feel insecure about their bodies are more likely to buy beauty products, clothes, and diet pills, potions, lotions, and programs. The diet industry is worth about $ 4 billion year in Australia, and are selling the temporary loss of weight!

Meanwhile, the research tells us that exposure to images of thin, young, air-brushed female bodies is linked to depression, loss of self-esteem and the development of unhealthy eating habits in women girls. As the cult of thinness really began in the 1960's, women all over the world have been dying of hunger in poor health, both physically and mentally, to achieve some of perfection that will, the magazine says, bring us ultimate happiness.

In Australia, in 2008, a dozen children under five were treated by the anorexia. Where as young children learn to restrict their food? Why?

Unfortunately, mothers take a large part of responsibility. Our children do not know they are unequal, less than perfect, and the "need to get in shape," just they love their mothers. And when the mother is clearly restrict their diet and critical analysis of his body, children naturally copy these behaviors.

If it seems an aberration that a child so young to limit their power, consider the following: - the 2006 National Survey of Young Australians, body image the third most pressing issue, behind family conflict and concerns about alcohol and drugs. But in 2007, 32.3% of respondents put body image the top three, ahead of family conflict and coping with stress - The Australian Medical Association says that the stick-thin models contribute to the problem because have a strong influence on body image and self-esteem among adolescents - About two thirds of new cases of eating disorders occur in women who have dieted moderately - A recent survey revealed that 1 in 5 girls under 12 years of age, fasting and vomited regularly to Lose Weight - One four Australian girls want to get plastic surgery.

Eating disorders are currently classified as a mental health disorder, and all disorders mental health more people die from anorexia than any other disorder. suffering from anorexia are more than five times as likely to die than other people in your age group, is a deadly disease is to kill the best and brightest of our young women.

And girls do not only arise from anorexia, which mature in women who have a permanent conflict with the insistent voice of anorexia telling them not to eat or to be imperfect and fat. Women with anorexia are 12 times more likely to die as other women of similar age.

The eating disorder known other is bulimia, suffered a 5% of all women, some studies say 10%. It is especially troubling, studies suggest that only a small percentage of patients are getting treated, is the great hidden cost of being thin and "hot."

My biggest concern with images of women and their concerns that these magazines represent, however, is that this only one way to be a woman: all that matters is that it seems perfect. Every woman I know has many layers of your being and life which is frankly insulting that women are represented how found in magazines.

The Australian federal government is the establishment of a committee of the advisory body image try to get some control over the messages of mass destruction that women take. The Government's actions aside, I think we need to see a cultural change for the sake of mental and physical health of our children. And that change must come from within the family. And the person in the center of the family is usually being a mom.

I suggest that the first step would be to leave buy magazines. Just stop. They are full of exaggerations and half-truths and gossip about normal people do not even know unpleasant, and causing people pain. If your child, sister, brother or father was one of the people, how you feel about strangers reading these lies and half-truths, examining all aspects of life, so they feel better at the expense of their loved ones? If you read the magazines, which is funding the people who make up these lies, because that pain. You can stop, its bit mind. The stories are just gossip anyway to fill the space between the ads that contribute to our way of thinking of society anorexic.

If you really want to enjoy magazines, as light reading (and we all need that relaxation time in a while), look around, take a different decision. Many women are tired of the distortion and behind the emergence of new magazines on the shelves of newsagents, with content that attracts the multiple facets of a woman's life. If you enjoy reading magazines - and there is a genuine quality of waiting time on reading a - take a moment to see some new titles, you may find something that really speaks.

The balance is bad, crazy is necessary, and bring it, are we women.

About the Author

Are you one of the millions of women who look in the mirror and hate what they see? You're not alone and it's not your fault! You can change it, in just five minutes a day, for free! Sandy Kumskov is a body image coach who helps women just like you. To find out more visit http://howtoloveyourbody.com/sya .

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