I'm not saying obesity isn't a problem (it is a huge problem), but the body type most presented in the media (and there is one body type dominant) is not what most women should strive for to be healthy.
>getting your health advice from adverts
m8 McDonals sells me the bullshit that they have food that counts as 5 a day and I'm not touching that crap
Also can you define this body type, I don't know what you're referring to there
Personally I think we should restrict scantily clad women and oiled up men doing that trouser pose thing on adverts above roadways in order to cut down cyclist deaths and road accidents
Tube adverts should be fine tho
You seem to be of the opinion that being against unhealthy body images equals being "pro-obesity". This is a misconception.
I've only ever seen it be said by obese people complaining about healthism, asking for plus sized models to be on billboards to make them feel better about themselves. When that billboard first entered public controversy it was obese people complaining about it, when Jamelia from Loose Women said being obese wasn't healthy and that obese women should not be role models for young women she was harassed for fat shaming, and I lost faith in humanity when I sat through 15 minutes of an obese lady trying to tell a doctor she was fine on BBC morning news
In the UK, the two great debates concerning girls and body image (at least from the health point of view) is how to deal with obese Britain, and how to deal with declining smoking rates in all demographics except young girls who've been sold the message that smoking is sexy
Oh yeah, and there was Dove a while back who did a "no air-brush" advertising campaign, but everyone got bored of that. It'd be interesting to see if Dove's campaign made them loads of profit, I might check on that
Indeed. Being a bit chubby is not unhealthy. In fact it's a sign of good health. Being obese is not healthy, but that's something completely different as having a few pounds more than the average poster model. The girl from the poster, photoshopped or not, is unhealthily skinny. You can almost count all her ribs, her cheeks are collapsed inwards, her eyes pretty deep down the sockets.
Being a "bit chubby" has had it definition considerably stretched. The person from the poster is not unhealthily skinny and your analysis of her is emblematic in many regards. If this is about body types, please learn about the diversity of bodies before attacking someone for their genetics - not all fat is distributed in everyone's bodies in the same places, this is true for men, this is especially true for women (resulting in even more variance!). That model is Renee Somerfield, and she is a very healthy Vegan - one of the few the world has ever seen (ayyyyo). Seeing ribs is normal and I'm actually... Stunned, out of all the people in the world I've ever known who couldn't count their ribs who weren't overweight, that one was a bodybuilder who worked out to much. Seems as well, taller, lankier people and people with slim frames will always be able to count their ribs, like even I could get obese and the weight would go to my legs and guts and I'd still be counting ribs
You've not seen sunken eyes, and my fucking sides "collapsed cheeks"
Defined cheekbones aren't even unhealthy, they're gorgeous rarities of good genes xD
At any rate I've not seen any evidence to see sunken eyes or rib counting being unhealthy and the NHS had nothing to say on sunken eyes, cheekbones, and on rib counting it depends on where your fat is distributed in your body and how fat you are. Given how fit Renee is, she doesn't have excess and what she does have is mostly concentrated at breast and thigh level, whereas the rest of her body is toned muscle.
Seriously when did healthy become unhealthy lol
I suppose this is more of an issue of a very angry minority who hate ectomorphs