Social media and celebrity culture `harming young people`
(WorldNews Health)

Airbrushed photographs of celebrities with perfectly preened bodies staged in exotic locations are all over social media, but such flawless images have been described as damaging for the way they pressurise young people to meet unobtainable body-image standards. Most children own a smartphone by the age of 10, and this has in turn led to increasing pressure on youngsters to look perfect in their online lives, a study has found. The youth charity YMCA spoke to more than 1,000 young people aged between 11 and 16. They found that 62% of 15 to...