Submitted by Sebastian George Bruuns on Friday 12th February 2021
Published on Monday 29th March 2021
Current status: Closed
Closed: Wednesday 29th September 2021
Signatures: 15
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Bodies ~ Companies ~ DAMAGE ~ Damaged ~ health crisis ~ Healthy ~ Held ~ Media ~ Mental health ~ mentalhealth ~ Social media ~ Standards ~ URGENT ~ Young people
Ban negative portrayals of healthy and normal body types in adverts
Too many adverts, particularly on social media, are taking normal and healthy bodies and then portraying them as unhealthy. It's creating increasingly unhealthy relationships people have with their bodies, and is decimating mental health amongst young people.
We're living in a mental health crisis. I've seen adverts for weight loss targeted at 13 year olds, which is absolutely wrong. We need urgent action on advertising standards including on social media, so that companies producing and hosting adverts are held accountable for the damage this is causing.
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