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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Love Your Body Day!

Today is Love Your Body Day!

"Do you love what you see when you look in the mirror?

"Hollywood and the fashion, cosmetics and diet industries work hard to make each of us believe that our bodies are unacceptable and need constant improvement. Print ads and television commercials reduce us to body parts -- lips, legs, breasts -- airbrushed and touched up to meet impossible standards. TV shows tell women and teenage girls that cosmetic surgery is good for self-esteem. Is it any wonder that 80% of U.S. women are dissatisfied with their appearance?

"Women and girls spend billions of dollars every year on cosmetics, fashion, magazines and diet aids. These industries can't use negative images to sell their products without our assistance.

Together, we can fight back."

Find out how at The Now Foundation's Love Your Body website.

3 comments:

Little Willow said...

I am short and loud and slender and brown-eyed and bespectacled and brunette and crooked feet and crooked teeth and and happy-go-luck!

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