Startling statistics show that "53% of 13-year-old girls are unhappy with their bodies. ... "Approximately 91% of women are unhappy with their bodies and resort to dieting to achieve their ideal body shape. Unfortunately, only 5% of women naturally possess the body type often portrayed by Americans in the media" (DoSomething.org) What most people, especially children, do not realize is that media's main priority is to sell something - whether it's a hamburger, makeup, weight loss pills, a car, or a razor blade, and the thing that all those advertisements have in comm...

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