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Fast fashion - https://sustainablefashionandmedia.blogspot.com/ - by Alexandra

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In April 2022, singer Camila Cabello was photographed at the beach by the paparazzi. She has opened about her body image struggles and took to Instagram to share a few thoughts. She said whenever she is on that beach, the paps manage to find her and take pictures. She then sees the pictures online and the comments under them and it makes her upset.  “I reminded myself when it impacted my self-esteem, that I was thinking the culture's thoughts and not my own. A culture who has gotten so used to an image of what a ‘healthy’ woman's body looks like that is completely not real for a lot of women” (Tannenbaum, 2022). Social media had heavily impacted this culture and she makes it clear when she continues, “Photoshop, restrictive eating, over-exercising, and choosing angles that make our bodies look different than how they are in the moment and in their natural form, when we take a deep breath, when we eat a meal, when we allow the waves to tussles around. I remind myself of this, li...
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An article by the King University written in 2019 talked about how social media affects body image, both negatively and positively. The positive was "health and wellness, fitness, and plant-based food accounts can all be inspirational models for some users. Through these frameworks, social media users can maintain a healthy and positive outlook on their body image" ("Link between", 2019). That can definitely be true, and I do encourage all my viewers to check out those kind of pages. However, this blog focuses more on other types of instagram pages, where a certain standard is pushed. That leads us to the negatives. A study conducted by the Florida House Experience, which is a healthcare institution, found that "87% of women and 65% of men compare their bodies to images they consume on social and traditional media. In that comparison, a stunning 50% of women and 37% of men compare their bodies unfavorably" ("Link between", 2019). They also mentio...
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What the experts say II

Social Media Use and Body Image Disorders: Association between Frequency of Comparing One’s Own Physical Appearance to That of People Being Followed on Social Media and Body Dissatisfaction and Drive for Thinness Reading the title already gives you a good idea of what this study is about. This article by PubMed Central is a very good in depth study about social media use and body dissatisfaction. In the discussing the main results part they say "Our survey aimed to study the links between social media use, body image disorders, and ED prevalence in a teenage and young adult population" (Jiotsa et al, 2021). There were a lot of factors included, such as the person's level of education or their BMI, but for the purpose of this blog, these are the simple results: "First, we found that ED or at-risk of ED subjects presented significantly different results concerning all social media use parameters. Using platforms such as Facebook and Instagram has been particularly asso...
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