Basic Facts about the Media’s Influence in Our lives

• 5,000 advertising messages a day

• 60% of Caucasian middle school girls read at least one fashion magazine regularly

• Women’s magazines had 10.5 times more advertisements and articles promoting weight loss than men’s magazines

• 74% cited to become more attractive as a reason to start exercising

• Average adolescent watches 3-4 hours of TV per day

• 1 of every 3.8 commercials send some sort of “attractiveness message”

• 5,260 “attractiveness messages” per year