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Healthy Youth Media Act Pt 2: Can Change Be Legislated? (interview)

July 21, 2010 by Amy Jussel 9 Comments

July 21, 2010 Can you hear the drumbeat, Hollywood? It’s getting louder. Girl advocates like Jessica Lawrence head to Capitol Hill to discuss H.R. 4925 tomorrow to share firsthand data about how … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Nutrition & Wellness, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: alcopops, All Things Girl, America the Beautiful, American Apparel, APA, APA Task force, appearance cues, Be the voice for girls, beauty myth, beyonce, boy toys, boys into monsters, Bratz, Capitol Hill, consumer advocacy, corporate pedophilia, dereon divas, dieting, eating-disorders, fashion-beauty-industry-expectations, FCC, FTC, Geena Davis Institute, Gender, gender equity, girl scouts, Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio Council, girls inc., GLI, GSA, GSUSA, H.R. 4925, harm of early sexualization, Healthy Media Youth Act, HGHW, hottie factor, HR4925, Huge, Jessica Lawrence, Lyn Mikel-Brown, meat marketing, media-literacy, Melissa Wardy, NCWO, obectification, Oct 22, Packaging-Boyhood, Packaging-Girlhood, parenting girls, PigTail Pals, Pink Think, plastic surgery, Pop culture impact on kids, preteens, raising girls, redefining girly, self-worth, Sesame Streetwalkers, sexism, sexist ads, Sexualization, Shelley Moore Capito, Single Ladies, So Sexy So Soon, SPARK! summit, sparksummit, support healthy media images for girls, surviving media morass, Tammy Baldwin, Tinkerbell, Wisconsin, Youth-advocacy

Body Image: Tips for Teens To Survive the Media Morass

January 21, 2010 by Amy Jussel 17 Comments

January 21, 2010 Last night I talked about body image to our local high school PTSO with Susan E. James, an LMFT eating disorders specialist and RD/MPH Cindy Stack-Keer from Kaiser Permanente all … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: abs, addictions, Adonis-Complex, AHS, Alison-Field, Amy-Jussel, anorexia, beauty myth, behavioral influence, Bigorexia, bogus claims, buffed boy, children, Cindy Stack Keer, curvy, disease, Dr.-Robyn-Silverman, dysmorphia, eating-disorders, emotional health, girls, Golden Globes, grooming, GUTS, hottie, Kids, label lingo, Letters to my body, media-literacy, MEF, mindless eating, National Eating Disorder Awareness, NEDA, NIDA, Nobody is Perfect, obesity, objectification, plastic surgery, Pop-Culture, public health, self-worth, Sexualization & Body Image, Steroids, stress, substance abuse, supplements, Susan James, teens, tweens, women

Shaping Youth Interviews ATB Director Darryl Roberts

August 29, 2008 by Amy Jussel 10 Comments

Last Friday I broke policy and posted America the Beautiful: “See it. Support it.” sight unseen! 48 hours ago I saw it; applauded it. 24 hours ago I started a ‘social media … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: adolescent body image, America the Beautiful, America the Beautiful documentary, ATB documentary, ATB movie, Beauty at any cost, breast augmentation, Childhood Matters, Darryl Roberts, dieting, Dr.-Robyn-Silverman, Eve Ensler, Facelifts, fat, Feel Good Girl, Is America Obsessed With Beauty, Kids, models, New-Moon-Girl-Media, plastic surgery, preteen-health, price of beauty, Rona-Renner, self-esteem, Sundance Kabuki, teens, thin, tweens, Ugly truth about beauty, weight obsession, YMCA, YWCA

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