Many young girls dislike their body, and this feeling is known to grow up until early adulthood, or maybe even last for the rest of one's life. How can this start so young people may ask, studies have shown that cartoon characters can affect how children feel. Female children describe the roles of girl cartoon characters as "domestic, interested in boys, and concerned with appearances," (National Institute). Saturday morning commercials were also evaluated and it showed that half of the commercials aimed at girls talked about physical attractiveness (National Institute). ...

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By age 9, many young girls are starting to show preoccupation with shape and weight. ... Body image dissatisfaction has become a cultural norm for girls and women. ... The majority of teenagers with eating disorders are girls (90%). ... At a life state when it is normal for pubescent girls to put on 20 percent of their growth in fat, culture contradicts biology, dictating that girls should grow smaller as they grow older. (www.pta.com April 2003) Little girls learn from an early age that appearance is, and will continue to be, important in their lives. ...

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Instead of putting real women with real flaws in these adds, they put a real person's head on a perfectly constructed body, or just make the person entirely cartoon like with large breasts, big hips, and a unrealistically skinny waist that if it were a real person could not fit her internal organs inside her body. ... Then there are the girls who hate themselves for eating, and that makes them depressed, which makes them eat even more and hate themselves more. ... It kills me to see her plaster pictures of these "unhealthy" girls on her wall and write up unrealistic goals and get more and...

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This intake rate slowly increases as a person ages and reaches about 1800 calories for girls and 2200 for boys at 18 years of age [Div08]. ... "Advertising that uses cartoon characters and action figures creates strong incentives for children to go to fast-food restaurants....

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