The Fat Fever

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Magazine: A Teenage Girls' Magazine

Audience: Teenage Girls

The Fat Fever

A global body image survey of nearly 40,000 CosmoGIRL! readers conducted by the CosmoGIRL! magazine, in the United States of America and their seven sister editions around the world declared that more than 80 per cent of their readers think that they would experience drastic improvements in their lives if they lost weight. Why wouldn't they think so? You have to be conscious about your looks to impress guys. The only thing that guys look for, in you is your figure- 34-26-34 for instance. If this doesn't meet their wants, they will never look back at you again. Your sense of humor, your intelligence quotient, your sports interests, and the fact that you can play the guitar will be of no use to impress the boy of your dreams if you're not well-shaped. But that doesn't mean you have to be skinny. You just have to be well-shaped.

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Effects of being obese: Being well-shaped is necessary not only to create a good impression, but also because being obese is considered unhealthy. It can lead to a lot of heart-related problems as you reach your 40s and 50s. Another effect would be losing your job, just like Heather Wells from the Size Doesn't Matter series. Heather Wells was a singer who lost her job because she put on a lot of weight. She also lost her boyfriend after that. Being obese may give you inferiority complex because of your peers being better-shaped as compared to you. This would affect ...

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