WHAT IS TRULY BEHIND YOUR SELF-STEEM
Poor body image can cause many dangerous and psychological effects. Teenagers are obsessed with being thin that they put their health in a critical situation. The media is excessively over advertising attractive women as being extremely thin. People are constantly seeing that beauty is depicted on one’s body appearance thus, creating body dissatisfaction. Body dissatisfaction is when one does not seem fulfilled with their physical appearance that they would ideally like to have. The media creates a big barrier to women and societal expectations. Consequently causing eating disorders. According to the National Institute of Mental Health (n.d), “[Eating disorders] frequently coexist with other illnesses such as depression, substance abuse, or anxiety disorders.” This is bad because everything it is very unhealthy. This issue goes under social, cultural, and religious positions. Body image is engraved in cultures, where thin females are looked upon for attractiveness. Also, religion plays a part of this issue because at first people that limited to food intake were considered to be devoted to God. However, times changed and now it is considered wrong to hate one's body. I will develop this issue towards teenage girls. Addressing how media is destroying the one self. It is important to stop the message of the ideal body.
-Jocelyn
Having poor body image perspectives about oneself it's not healthy. There is a time once teenage girls are starting to focus more on the ads and the type of commercials that are around them. Negative body image is negatively impacted by one or more significant events. People don’t know that having poor body image perception can lead to a physical and psychological pain because it’s something that build up within time and it will can lead to eating disorders and it can make a healthy life turn into a very unhealthy life. Poor body image starts of as of seeing the media and from there it goes off to eating disorders. Eating disorders connect with body image and the way it does that is by the media we see on a everyday routine. Many television shows demonstrate us the type of girls guys look into. T.v shows goal is to entertain us but why not do it with an average girl that is 5"4 tall and weighs 140. Once these types of shows and ads are aired it creates negative body image perception. According to Butterfly Foundation CEO, Christine Morgan, we need to address these types of root cause its starting as early as 5 years of age. An “Increase in hospital admissions for treatment of children under 10 years old for eating disorders” (Morgan 2013). This means that as time passes girls and other children as well are becoming more and more worried about the size of clothing they wear and if they are thin, fat, short, or tall. The majority of girls start as early as 7-8 years of age and as Morgan states that there has been an “Increased number of requests to Butterfly’s education team from schools and principals wanting to address issues of negative body image, low self-esteem and self-harm in their school community.” This would be a good way to start of and because it's a way to start eliminating the root causes and start planting a little bit of positive body image and then from there we expect that they will go away as time goes on.
-Selva
-Jocelyn
Having poor body image perspectives about oneself it's not healthy. There is a time once teenage girls are starting to focus more on the ads and the type of commercials that are around them. Negative body image is negatively impacted by one or more significant events. People don’t know that having poor body image perception can lead to a physical and psychological pain because it’s something that build up within time and it will can lead to eating disorders and it can make a healthy life turn into a very unhealthy life. Poor body image starts of as of seeing the media and from there it goes off to eating disorders. Eating disorders connect with body image and the way it does that is by the media we see on a everyday routine. Many television shows demonstrate us the type of girls guys look into. T.v shows goal is to entertain us but why not do it with an average girl that is 5"4 tall and weighs 140. Once these types of shows and ads are aired it creates negative body image perception. According to Butterfly Foundation CEO, Christine Morgan, we need to address these types of root cause its starting as early as 5 years of age. An “Increase in hospital admissions for treatment of children under 10 years old for eating disorders” (Morgan 2013). This means that as time passes girls and other children as well are becoming more and more worried about the size of clothing they wear and if they are thin, fat, short, or tall. The majority of girls start as early as 7-8 years of age and as Morgan states that there has been an “Increased number of requests to Butterfly’s education team from schools and principals wanting to address issues of negative body image, low self-esteem and self-harm in their school community.” This would be a good way to start of and because it's a way to start eliminating the root causes and start planting a little bit of positive body image and then from there we expect that they will go away as time goes on.
-Selva