Body image in this program is not highly focused on. This however doesn't mean it isn't there. This program is mediated in such a way, that health is promoted through the use of the people being interviewed. Throughout the programs there are many interviews and all of which are people that have a body type that would be viewed as 'healthy'. The people in the program are of the older generation suggesting that the audience for this program are those of the older generation! This means that the body types being represented are very different to those that are in younger programs.
Further on in the program, two fashion designers are introduced to the audience. These fashion designers are shown to be very healthy diet wise and are very skinny, this suggests to the audience that to be healthy you must be skinny. This is clearly a negative representation of body image, in the sense that it may persuade viewers to force themselves to become skinny. This is clearly a problem.
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