America's+Body+and+Beauty+Reflection

As our attention toward the media has continuously increased, our attention toward body image has proportionately grown both positively and negatively. As our attention toward body image has increased, it does lead some to be like role models they may find on television or lead a healthy lifestyle to look healthy and fit like the athletes or actors and actresses we see on television. But some people take this positive idea too far and have turned it into a negative affect sweeping the nation, especially towards the female population of America. As our technology has increased, applications such as Photoshop have been airbrushing and editing all of the women we see in the popular magazines the people of America see. This leads people to aim to be the unrealistically thin people they see and turn self-improvement to self-destruction. Our media and society has turned into one that is obsessed with the idea of being stick thin. An individual can be incredibly good looking and attractive, yet be ridiculed by fashion experts or model agencies for having natural and healthy meat on their bones. Eating disorders have been sweeping our nation, and it is not only over-eating that has taken over but also other eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. I believe that our nation needs to be more realistic, and not surpass the "fifty per cent illusion" of a woman's charm.

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