Advertising

I think in Killing Us Softly the speaker makes a lot of good points about advertising.  Advertising has a dramatic effect on how people view themselves and their bodies.  It especially affects younger girls who at this age see a girl in an advertisement and think that is the way she has to look.  All the advertisements with the tiny models can have a negative effect on young girls and women's self-esteem.  Women cannot feel good about themselves when they are constantly being compared to women in advertisements.  Women are always striving for a body that is many times unachievable or unrealistic for them.  Women are doing this because of what they are constantly seeing on a daily basis and that is advertisements with models who are extremely skinny with large breast.  Only a select few people can achieve the body of the women in advertisements.  The ad below is just one example of how they use a women's body to try to sell a product.  In this ad they are trying to sell a type of body wash and use a very skinny model with larger breast to try to do this because they know it will attract people to their product.

Impatient America

Today in America everyone is so impatient and doesn't want to wait for anything.  I believe people in America are overweight because no one wants to wait and are so impatient.  Because everyone is always so busy and its always go go go, its easy for people to just stop quickly somewhere like McDonald's to grab something to eat.  So many people like to go through drive thru's because its convenient and they don't have to take anymore time out of their day to cook a healthy meal.  I'm not really sure on this problem can be fixed, besides people have to learn how to manage their time and make time for things that matter more.  Also people in America must learn to be patient and stop trying to fit so many things in one day.