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Women and Diet Pills, Part 2 |
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A good way to see how images of beauty have changed throughout time is to look at art. Artwork often portrays idealized images of the period in which the art was created. When you look at paintings depicting Greek gods and goddesses, for example, you may be surprised to see how round and plump the women are. Renaissance women were also portrayed with round bellies and wide hips. In the 1920s' Art Deco period, slim, boyish women are often portrayed.
In today's world, the mediatelevision, radio, movies, the Internet, newspapers, and magazinesare like the circulatory system that carries cultural "blood" to all parts of our society. A good deal of the messages that are pumped through the popular media have to do with selling products that promise to make young women more beautiful. But in order to sell you a beauty product, a company must be sure that the buyers' ideal or conception of beauty is the same image that the product promises to bestow. For example, if in a certain place people dislike plump abdomens, then it makes sense for a company to advertise products that promise to reduce the size of a person's abdomen. However, if everyone in a |
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