Would it help if we followed France and England’s proposal and added a label such as this one to the bottom of a picture? Photoshopped images such as the one above are cited for the rise in eating disorders and unhealthy attitudes about body weight and size. Eating disorders are incredibly prevalent in America, and are on the rise in other countries. Just check out these statistics on eating disorders in America from the South Carolina Department of Mental Health if you don’t believe me. But for many people, statements like that aren’t enough. Luckily for me, that simple statement was enough to shock me into rethinking my eating habits. You look sick,” that I realized what I was doing to my body. It wasn’t until I came home from undergrad one summer and my friends and family said, “Wow, Ashley. I became a vegetarian to more easily avoid fast food and keep off that dreaded Freshman Fifteen. I ate two very simple meals a day, skipping lunch. I went to the gym twice a day and enrolled myself in exercise courses at school, giving me three workouts a day on average. Though I was never diagnosed with an eating disorder, I struggled with my body image all throughout high school and college (and probably even earlier than that). The United States may well be ready for such a change, especially in light of the relief and excitement many people seemed to feel after seeing models bare it all with no retouching a few years ago. Such labels would help young people seeing these images to realize that they set an unattainable beauty standard. go a step further? In England and France, lawmakers have been trying to get ad agencies and magazines to put warning labels on retouched images to alert the public that these images are fake. I, for one, say it’s about time.īut should the U.S. This week, the American Medical Association denounced the use of digital manipulation and retouching on models and asked advertising agencies to consider imposing stricter guidelines for manipulating photos before they are sent to press.
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