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Researchers suggest advertising media may adversely impact women's body image,

ads made women fear being unattractive

he average woman sees 400 to 600 advertisements per day

and by the time she is 17 years old, she has received over 250,000 commercial messages through the media.

Only 9% of commercials have a direct statement about beauty,

but many more implicitly emphasize the importance of beauty--particularly those that target women and girls.

This constant exposure to female-oriented advertisements may influence girls to become self-conscious about their bodies and to obsess over their physical appearance as a measure of their worth

ty, and the bodies idealized in the media are frequently atypical of normal, healthy women. In fact,

Advertisements emphasize thinness as a standard for female beau

today's fashion models weigh 23% less than the average female

Women frequently compare their bodies to those they see around them, and researchers have found that exposure to idealized body images lowers women's satisfaction with their own attractiveness.

girls reported in a

Body Image Survey that "very thin" models made them

feel insecure about themselves.

Dissatisfaction with their bodies causes many women and girls to strive for the thin ideal. The number one wish for girls ages 11 to 17 is to be thinner

Eighty percent (80%) of 10-year-old girls have dieted,

One study found that 47% of the girls were influenced by magazine pictures to want to lose weight, but only 29% were actually overweight

Research has also found that stringent dieting to achieve an ideal figure can play a key role in triggering eating disorders.

Girls who were already dissatisfied with their bodies showed more dieting, anxiety, and bulimic symptoms after prolonged exposure to fashion and advertising images

in a teen girl magazine.

Even your basic needs are dependent on fossil fuels.

the human population has grown by more than five times

Americans consume 300 – 600 times as much as people in very poor nations, in some cases.

many of whom aspire to live “better” lives, to consume like wealthy people.

Our Changing Planet

climate change research by 13 government agencies.

reach unanimous agreement on the wording of each sentence in the 20-page summary for policymakers. "Most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperature since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic [human-caused]

The phrase "very likely" translates to a 90 percent probability

In 2001 the panel concluded humans were "likely," or with 66 percent probability

Are animal experiments useful? Animal experiments only benefit human beings if their results are valid and can be applied to human beings. Not all scientists are convinced that these tests are valid and useful.

Animal experiments are widely used to develop new medicines and to test the safety of other products.

In November 2008 the European Union put forward proposals to revise the directive for the protection of animals used in scientific experiments

The proposals have three aims: to considerably improve the welfare of animals used in scientific procedures

to ensure fair competition for industry to boost research activities in the European Union

The main changes proposed are:

to make it compulsory to carry out ethical reviews and require that experiments where animals are used be subject to authorisation to widen the scope of the directive to include specific invertebrate species and foetuses in their last trimester of development and also larvae and other animals used in basic research, education and training to set minimum housing and care requirements to require that only animals of second or older generations be used, subject to transitional periods, to avoid taking animals from the wild and exhausting wild populations to state that alternatives to testing on animals must be used when available and that the number of animals used in projects be reduced to a minimum to require member states to improve the breeding, accommodation and care measures and methods used in procedures so as to eliminate or reduce to a minimum any possible pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm caused to animals

Approximately 95% of those affected by anorexia are female, but males can develop the disorder as well.

anorexia typically begins to manifest itself during early adolescence

In the U.S. and other countries with high economic status, it is estimated that about one out of every 100 adolescent girls has the disorder.

According to the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), an estimated 0.5%-3.7% of women will suffer from this disorder at some point in their lives.

ny experts consider people for whom thinness is especially desirable, or a professional requirement (such as

models, dancers, and actors

At this time, no definite cause of anorexia nervosa has been determined. However, research within the medical and psychological fields continues to explore possible causes.

Women of ages eleven years of age to seventeen years old number one wish is to lose weight and keep it off.

By the time these girls reach the age of eighteen eighty percent of them have dieted.

with young women

This is not only a problem

The advertisement for this product displays a thin, beautiful model dressed in a short, low-cut dress lounging on a bar stool. They have her long thin legs that take up most of the page with not a trace of cellulite on them. The caption for this advertisement is written across her tiny waist and it reads "Everybody could use a little less fat"

Lite Cheese portrays that a women cannot be thin enough an even every women who is thin must worry that their bodies are "too fat".

The ideal thin appears in television and magazines especially for women.

standard in television is slimmer for female then it is for males.

Popular women's magazines contain approximately ten times as many dieting articles

These students will gain weight and then diet. This triggers eating disorders

Suddenly they are on their own with food, usually for the first time in their lives

Researchers said they are more than 90 percent certain that global warming is caused by humans

tremendous amounts of fossil fuels.

storing carbon for thousands, possibly millions of years.

When your car burns them, that carbon is instantly released as carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

cleared of existing trees and plants that were actively storing carbon.

they stopped storing carbon and released all the carbon they had accumulated over tens or even hundreds of years.

use of enormous fossil fuel-powered machines in the production,

produce methane, a major greenhouse gas.

beef, lamb or goat meat,

that animal agriculture is responsible for 18% of global greenhouse gas emissions,

Is Human-Caused Warming Dangerous?

short answer is “yes

main ingredient in a delicacy that has been consumed in China since 960 A.D.

status symbol than a gastronomic delight