Committee: Health and Sexual Rights Topic: Magazine and television demand of unrealistic perfection Sponsor: United States
Social Justice Community
Deeply concerned: that the influence in media will create health issues among men, women, young teens and lead them to dangerous health risks.
Encouraging: the viewers comprehend the importance and value of basic understanding of consumption (diets) and the proper ways of exercising and dieting, and also know the difference of the information given from media and printings.
Affirming: that people should understand the developing risk of health issues likeCardiac disease,heart muscle starvation, the heart can develop dangerously slow rhythms, and can cause a disruption of a normal social life, such as not dinning with friends or family.
Stressing that these images on television and television shows, magazines and creating devastating future actions and damages to teenagers, and are leading older women and men to permanent damage of health.
Statistics: Not only are women attacked by social standards and perceptions, men deal with the fact of being accepted for being the biggest in sports, the “macho” in homes, and in the eyes of women, but are also lead into the path of drugs then young or older females, and are 50% of 100 being affected by how they look.
Actions
1) Creating informational pamphlets with description about eating disorders;
2) Groups for teenagers who think they are developing health issues, eating disorders.
3) Post posters around the community about hotlines, if people are concerned about their health, and advertising images.
4) Create more health clubs, and also health classes in school.