Maintaining a healthy weight is a good practice in reducing heart diseases, back problems, and various other chronic disorders. As a psychology major student, I am interested in health related issues such as reasons why people become anorexics or why people choose binge eating to avoid certain problems or stress.
This blog is targeted to those who are affected by the media which persuade them being skinny is the current trend. Since teenagers and adolescents spend a lot of time watching television or browsing through the internet, they tend to absorb information easier via assorted media. In many of these advertisement or television series, the use of young skinny models/actresses tends to serve as peer pressure towards the audience. This is dangerous in the sense that people will start to lose their own self-identity. And the importance of this issue is towards that some people who try to become “ideally fit” outlined by the general public may actually suffer from health problems and psychological issues.
By generating these blogs, I wish to help my audience and myself understand important issues such as how the media affect the general public’s mental image of being fit compared to what a person’s ideal body-to-weight ratio is. By doing so, we can appreciate the fact that each person is different: with different bone structure, catabolic metabolism, body-to-weight ratio, height, etc. We should not perceive people as fat or skinny, but rather if he/she is physically fit and able to devoid of any health concerns.
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