Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Cheol Ho Lee: Body Image

According to researche, the attractive people receive more attention and success than the unattractive people; however, many people in the world have a poor body image. There are causes that lead people to have a poor body image.

Media and fashion are important causes for having a poor body image. Tons of TV commercials are concerned with body images such as cosmetics, diet food, plastic surgery and apparels. In addition, filming locations, good looking actors and actresses on movies make people mention about their body image. As a result, TV commercials and movies stimulate people’s emotion. Second, fashion is the other cause of poor image, because people want to be like models in popular fashion magazines and want to have a good body shape like a fashion model.

As a result, there are two important effects that are due to the causes. Health problems, such as obesity and anorexia, are the health effects. Both young and old people eat a lot when they have stress which is from their poor body image. On the contrary, young people start extreme diet which leads them anorexia eventually. Either obesity or anorexia leads serious health problems. In addition, losing self-esteem is the other effect of poor body image. People compare themselves to each other always, and then conclude that others are better. Consequently, people begin to lose self-esteem. Moreover, people don’t try to show their abilities when they lose self-confidence. After that, people feel like failures.

In conclusion, there are two important causes and effects for poor body image that people don’t want to be. Those two effects lead serious health problems in both young and old people, so people have to stay clever to make their body image better.

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