...Analysis Paper Women’s Health Product: Olay, Anti-Aging Eye Roller In today’s society there are a lot of beauty products for women that promise to get the job done. These products could be make-up, dieting pills or drinks, and aging products. Women need to be careful though because these products may not do what they are supposed to do. The products could cause health problems, allergic reactions or just not work at all and people then waste their money. If a women wants to buy a product for themselves, they first should do research. Their research should including reading reviews to see if the product will work and then see if the products are FDA approved and if doctors or health professionals recommend them. If all seems true and real, then buy the product but first do research to keep yourself safe. The product Olay, anti-aging eye roller is a product that reduces puffy-ness under women’s eyes, this product furthermore helps with aging. The message this ad is sending is negative but could also be positive. It could be positive because it is showing women that you do not have to age, that there are products to help with looking younger. On the other hand, this message it also negative. This is because the ad is not that it is not ok to look older. Women can look beautiful when they are older, they do not have to buy products to fix themselves. This ad could go either way to people; it depends on how they look at the message. I have asked different women with different ages...
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...Depleting Body Image: The Effects of Female Magazine Models on the Self-esteem and Body Image of College-age Women Influence of Magazines on College-Age Females’ Body Image Millions of women every day are bombarded with the media’s idea of the “perfect” body. These unrealistic images are portrayed in women’s magazines all over the country. The message being sent to women is that they are not pretty or skinny enough. The average American woman is 5’4” and weighs 140 pounds, while the average American model is 5’11” and weighs 117 pounds. Annually, magazine companies spend billions of dollars on diet and exercise advertisements to put in their magazines. Magazines sell body dissatisfaction to their readers through unrealistic images of women, as well as dieting and exercise information. Thirty years ago, Marilyn Monroe, a size 14, had the “ideal” body shape and size, but today’s standard is much smaller. As the beauty ideal continues to get smaller in our society, body image within American women continues to plummet. Magazines portray and compare happiness with being thin; therefore some feel if they are not thin, then they are not happy. As with women of all ages, many college-age women are believed to hold unrealistic ideals of body shape and size, ideals that can be both physically and emotionally unhealthy. Our study, focused on women who attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison that are between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four. We wanted to identify the specific...
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... Journal The Health Benefits of Jogging There are many health benefits that you can get from jogging. Some would say that it helps your breathing and some say that it helps keeps the body active. I will now explain all of the right health benefits that you can get from jogging. Jogging is the next step from walking the main intentions are to increase your fitness, endurance, and burn tons of calories. What does jogging do to your body to benefit from it? It helps strengthen your heart and lungs and reduces your risk for developing heart disease, aid in weight control, promotes healthy bones and reduces your risk for developing osteoporosis. The easiest technique for jogging is a 30 minute jogging routine it helps burns between 240 and 400 calories. There are different and similar health benefits of jogging for men and women. For women jogging helps the menstruation cycle, sweating releases water that helps with the bloating and also reduces the pain of cramps and can actually help to lessen the discomforts. For men jogging benefits since men tend to become more stressed, depressed, or angry compared to women. Some jogging benefits have different effect on men and women. For instance, men who take up jogging regularly achieve muscle growth and definition. However, with women, as there is a lack of testosterone production, the muscles worked i.e. the buttocks, arms as well as thighs will gain a more toned look as opposed to the muscular look of their male counterparts...
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...I took her to our doctor, and she asked me to put Jen in the hospital. Jen’s treatment helped her return to a normal weight. It's been a tough road since then for all of us, but Jen is back home now. She is still seeing her doctors, and may need help for some time. But she’s doing much better. more in control of life and to ease tension, anger, and anxiety. Most people with anorexia are female. An anorexic: • Has a low body weight for her or his height • Resists keeping a normal body weight • Has an intense fear of gaining weight • Thinks she or he is fat even when very thin • Misses 3 menstrual periods in a row (for girls/women who have started having their periods) Q: Who becomes anorexic? A: While anorexia mostly affects girls and women (85 - 95 percent of anorexics are...
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...surgery, they embrace it as a solution to personal and professional problems. While appearance has always been important, mainstream acceptance of plastic surgery has created a society that values appearance over ability. Teenage girls and middle-aged women seek acceptance based on their appearance in all aspects of their lives. Teenage girls want to be the prettiest and the thinnest due to the pressure of society and their peers. Middle aged women pursue plastic surgery in hopes of enhancing their looks and looking younger than what they are. Today’s society is so centered on appearance that it can be very misleading to the minds of young girls and women. There are images of female bodies everywhere in today’s society. Women are used to sell everything from cars to food. Television and big screen movie actresses are typically tall, young looking and thin. The majority of these famous women have used some type of fad diet or practiced mal nutrition. There are articles everywhere urging women and young girls to lose weight. They make claims that beauty and the perfect body will provide the perfect marriage and rewarding lifestyles. Beauty truly is only skin deep. One cannot achieve what they desire based on their looks alone. You can turn on the TV or open any magazine such as US Weekly and see the latest cosmetic surgery that some actress recently underwent. There are publications everywhere promoting what’s new in the world of cosmetic surgery. If you...
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...certainly to utilize these army of girls to sell their products, it is important to look beyond this and recognize that they inevitably sell values, images, and concepts (eg: sexuality). The overpowering presence of these models in the in the media provides a benchmark telling us who we are and who we should be. It also tells us how to look and how to be beautiful. It tells us in order to be acceptable we have to be unnaturally thin.They promote a very unrealistic idea of body image, which are inadvertently translated into "normalcy"- providing audiences with a sense of what is supposedly normal. Either consciously or subconsciously we internalize these values, which then fuels us to strive to become exactly what we see. For instance, we feel ashamed and even guilty if we fail to have stick thin bodies akin to these statuesque models. This "thin inspiration" is clearly apparent when almost immediately after the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2011 aired, many girls set their Facebook statuses to lines such as: “Better go to the gym! Just watched the Victoria’s Secret Fashion show!” The great emphasis Victoria’s Secret lingerie advertisements emphasize beauty and thinness causes young women to be perpetually unsatisfied with their body. There is a disjuncture between their real weight and their perceived weight, in that most women deem themselves to be too fat. This comment is commonly thrown around by women to express their dissatisfaction with their bodily...
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...Author: Makeisha Lee, Black Health Consultant Title: Obesity, Lifestyles and African-Americans – What are the Correlations? Publication / Internet Site: http://www.imdiversity.com/villages/african/family_lifestyle_traditions/bpr_obesity1127.asp Date: N/A Issue: IMDiversity Body: Makeisha Lee, Black health consultant in this article speaks to us as African-Americans about having the right balance of foods in our lives. The article goes on to explain that eating is one life’s greatest pleasures. We human beings enjoy the smell of good food, the taste of good food, the texture, as well as how it makes us feel when it goes down, so food can be very pleasurable but it can also be very dangerous if not kept in its proper balance. As Ms. Lee said earlier we can enjoy food but the primary job for food is to nourish our bodies. The nutrients that we get from the foods help our bodies to sustain life, health as well as strength. When we don’t have the right balance of foods that are bodies, ( mind-body and emotion) gets all a lot of whack. If you don’t have the right balance of food and have adequate exercise you end up with, “Obesity”. A definition for obesity is the intake of food overpowering the needed exercise in order to keep the weight down. Obesity is more common in African Americans than any other ethnic group. Let’s take a closer look to see why this is. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) of vital health statistics, 16.1% of African-American...
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...Menopause? Chapter 2 Are My Hormones Really Raging? Chapter 3 New Ways to Look at Menopause Chapter 4 Taking Control of the Symptoms Chapter 5 Exercise Your Way Through Menopause Chapter 6 Fuel Your Body for Optimum Health Conclusion Disclaimer Nothing in this book should be construed to be medical advice or even the advice of a nutritionist or dietician. All of the comments herein are from personal experience. The author is absolved from any responsibility regarding any results from those who carry out the suggestions related in this book. Each reader is responsible for his or her own actions. This and all health related books written by Michael Irvin, RN complement, but do not replace, traditional medical care. This is not to be taken or interpreted as Medical advice. Treatment is your choice. The information here highlights another way to view health and wellness, but it does not diagnose, treat or prescribe; and, it is not intended for primary medical intervention. If you have symptoms, contact your health professional of choice before proceeding with any suggestion book. Introduction When a woman gets engaged to be married, you can rest assured she will receive an onslaught of advice – both welcome and unwelcome – from other women who have been there; done that. The same is true during pregnancy. There is absolutely no end to the waves upon waves of advice that will come your way when you are expecting a child. Every other woman seems to know what you...
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...I would say, from what I have learned in my abnormal psychology class, your daughter might have something called bulimia, which is a type of eating disorder. A person with bulimia eats a lot of food in a short amount of time which is binging and then tries to prevent weight gain by purging or getting rid of the food. Purging might be done by: * Making yourself throw up * Taking laxatives, which you have found in her room. Laxatives can pills or liquids and speed up the movement of food through your body to produce a bowel movement more quickly, making it an easy and appealing way to lose weight. * Exercise excessively, as you have described People with bulimia often fall within the normal range for their age and weight. But their weak points are that they: * Fear gaining weight * Want desperately to lose weight * Are very unhappy with their body size and shape A person with bulimia may be thin, overweight, or have a normal weight. A person with bulimia is often very private so they can do things such as throwing up because the person with bulimia feels shame or disgust. This makes it hard to know if someone has bulimia. The warning signs to look out for are extreme weight loss through: * Using diet pills, or taking pills to urinate or have a bowel movement * Going to the bathroom all the time after eating (to throw up) * Exercising a lot, even in bad weather or when hurt or tired You may be able to recognize the signs of frequent...
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...What is beauty? Is it having a skinny body, a blemish free face, and long blonde hair? For some girls it is. Beauty is a main concern for many girls, especially as they are growing up and going through adolescents. They admire women in magazines and on television, dreaming to be just like them. Unfortunately, what they do not realize is that no one has the perfect smile, perfect skin, or perfect hair. The media puts forth an image of beauty that is unattainable. They do this by showing unhealthy stick-thin girls with “flaw-less” attributes. In the sick world of marketing, the companies that produce an item to sell, such as make up, depend on the insecurities of females. The companies use thin girls with a perfect complexion and a killer smile to flaunt around with the product they are trying to sell. When girls see this, they think to themselves, “Oh I wish I looked like that.” or “This is how I should look, the way I look right now isn’t right.” Because we only display thin girls in our media, girls feel as if that is how they should be. The media negatively influences girls’ perception of body image, which can cause eating disorders and low self-esteem. There have been plenty of studies linked to the negative impacts of body image caused by the media. Here is an example of one study found on thebodyproject.com, “In 1999, Anne Becker and Rebecca Burwell of the Harvard Eating Disorders Center found that media exposure dramatically increased the incidence of eating disorders...
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...Metabical : Positioning and Communication Strategy for a new Weight-Loss Drug ZOOM Syndicate Gari Nurahman Wahyu Kumoro Santo Rizal Background Time February 2008 Cambridge Sciences Pharmaceuticals (CSP) International health care company Focus on Developing, manufacturing, and marketing product (metabolic disorder, gastrointestinal disease, immune deficiencies, etc.) Barbara Printup, Senior Director of marketing Want to launch Metabical (Meh-tuh-bye-cal) Objective Develop Positioning Strategy Build the Marketing Communication plan Positioning IMC Launch February 2008 January 2009 Analysis United State Issue In 2005, 65% from adult Population is Overweight, Obese and severely obese. The Second cause of preventable death Social Stigma (affect to professional life) Weight loss Drugs characteristic No Prescription drugs for (BMI of 25 30) are available Negative side effects ( gastrointestinal effect, and liver damage) Herbal/ dietary supplement Required an FDA approval except herbal Metabical Approved by FDA Specifically for Overweight (BMI 25 30) Reducing stress on heart and liver Single dose per day (controlled release feature) The side effect (gastrointestinal discomfort) less severe then other (if the patient consumed high level of fat and calories) Not recommended for BMI >30 Support Program Reference material Online weight Control Personal Support Meal Plans Weight loss tracker...
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...Introduction At every prenatal exam, your health care provider will take your blood pressure, check your weight, and measure your belly to make sure your pregnancy is progressing in a healthy way. Your provider will also check your baby's heart rate. Having certain tests and screenings during pregnancy is another important part of your prenatal care. Tests and screenings help your health care provider find problems that might affect your pregnancy. Some tests are done for all pregnant women, and some are optional. Most tests and screenings during pregnancy do not pose any risks for you or your baby. You may need additional testing if any routine tests indicate a problem. Tests and screenings done in early pregnancy These are common tests and...
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...Everyday females are judged by the media, whether in a work place, television ads, or magazines. Women judge themselves on how they look to make sure there keeping up with society ideal woman. When women are subjected to the idea that they must have an unattainable body, this starts to teach women that if they do not have the right look they are not seen as beautiful. Women start feeling as if they do not add up to societies, it will makes them think they will not be accepted. This can cause an enormous impact on a woman’s self-esteem and self-respect. Women who become obsessed with their body image could be at high risk of developing an eating disorder, such as. Today, women are looking at the publics opinion of what beautiful is seen as,...
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...thin you are, no matter how beautiful you are, someone will always call you ugly because it is impossible to please the world.” (Demi Lovato, 2014). In today’s society young women are constantly struggling mentally, physically and psychologically with accepting their own bodies. According to the Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders (2003), this trend started since the Renaissance period where self-starvation was practiced for religious purposes, however due to the growing influence of the Media, eating disorders have become more popular in the twentieth century and as a result the death rate has climbed horrifyingly (Frey, 2003). The Media has a heavy influence on how young women in the United States view and modify their bodies to achieve a perfect body type, however this ideology can lead to negative outcomes such as; low self-esteem, body dissatisfaction and eating disorders, as well as affect other spheres of life. In examining the role of the Media and the negative effects it has on an individual one can clearly see that the issue have gotten to the point where young women live a life where they are mentally tormented and pressured to achieve one body type. Media attacks the subconscious mind and imprint false images of beauty which in turn leads to downward social comparison and allows young women to feel insecure in their own skin which leads them to a web of negative thoughts and feelings about their own bodies. The result of this mental and physical torment is evident...
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...A survey was conducted amongst ______ students to get their insights on smoking and also their personal experiences with it. We divided the questionnaire for smokers and non-smokers. We managed to get a total of 50 participants in which 60% were non-smokers and 40% were smokers. The questions regarding smoking facts were answered by both sides. Both smokers and non-smokers seem to have just a slight understanding on what smoking really does to the body and to those around them. Based on the findings, we recommend that students be exposed to the real dangers of smoking. We suggest exhibitions, competitions, talks or maybe even a health class. TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS-----------------------------------------------------vi EXECUTIVE SUMMARY-------------------------------------------------------vii I. INTRODUCTION-------------------------------------------------------1 Background Statement of the Problem Purpose of the Study Scope II. RELATED LITERATURE-------------------------------------------- III. PROCEDURES--------------------------------------------------------- IV. FINDINGS AND ANALYSIS---------------------------------------- V. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS----------------- REFERENCES LIST------------------------------------------------------------- APPENDIX—SURVEY INSTRUMENT------------------------------------ LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS TABLES 1. EFFECTS THAT ARE CAUSED BY SMOKING------------------------------- ...
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