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Ban negative portrayals of healthy and normal body types in adverts

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 ~ Re ~ Social media ~ Standards ~ URGENT ~ Young people

Petition Action

Ban negative portrayals of healthy and normal body types in adverts

Petition Details

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.

Additional Information

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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