It is known as its famous ranking for Best Colleges and Best Hospitals and that rankings are popular in North America. This article shares the audience some advice about the ways to teach children to love their bodies. These days, most women are unhappy with their current bodies and educating the children since they are kids is very important because teaching them to respect and embrace their body diversity can set a foundation for their body appreciation. The author indicated that according to a study, the students between 15 to 19 are usually struggling with body dissatisfaction and have negative thoughts about it, which increase the risk for the development of eating disorders, depression, and low self-esteem”.
This makes the author conclude that the parents contribute a really big factor to their children’s view of their appearance, so we should protect them by being a role model to them and teaching them to love their own body such as saying to them that “all bodies are good bodies” or “there’s nothing wrong with fat” . However, the author focuses more on sharing advice about how to teach the children to love their bodies than sharing knowledge about body image. Since that, I can not gain any new information about my topic to write on my essay. Nevertheless, I can still use the idea that it could be hard for kids to live without the body image when they are surrounded by thinness ideal, advertisement, and media.
Thus, the parents play a very important role in guiding the kids toward a positive body image by explaining to them how nutritious foods help their body to function optimally, how their body changes during puberty and helping them to understand that people were born in different shapes and sizes. I will probably use this to explain my point that most women are unhappy with their current bodies these days and educating the children since they are kids is very important because teaching them to respect and embrace their body diversity can set a foundation for their body appreciation. Duarte, Cristiana, et al.
Her research is usually based on the development of mental disorders in children, adolescents, and young adults. She is currently a leader of Boricua Youth Study, which is about how mental disorders develop from childhood to adulthood. Cristiana’s article opens by discussing the relationship between shame and body image difficulties. Body image seems like an indicator of women’s attractiveness and plays an important role in this association. The author takes samples of women from the general and student populations to test the Body Image Shame Scale (BISS). The author states that the main aim of this study was the development of a scale that specifically assessed body image shame. The scale shows good concurrent and different validities. The author then defines shame as a multifaceted, self-conscious and socially shaped emotion that emerges for social attractiveness. Shame acts as a warning sign that negative evaluations about how one thinks others see and judge the self.
Thus, the author makes a conclusion that this distinction is an important aspect to consider in the evaluation of shame regarding one’s physical appearance. However, even though these are valid measures, they focus only on a sense of self-consciousness related to body image. But, the author fails to address body image shame and its phenomenology and this makes me hard to imagine how body shame actually affects individuals mentally and explain them in my paper. Nevertheless, this article is useful for my essay because it helps me to prove my point that in modern Western societies these days, women’s attractiveness has been represented by thinness, which became desirable of characteristics, success, power, and happiness. I will probably use the idea of “physical appearance is a source of shame” and its demonstration by the research study to pair them.
Diane Lewis is an American journalist and a reporter for Boston Globe. She received a bachelor degree in English literature at Case Western University and she is also a publicist at the Cleveland Public Library. Fary Cachelin is a Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Ph.D.) for Community and Civic Engagement. She also works at the University of East London in the United Kingdom as the Dean of the College of Applied Health and Communities. This article conducts an investigation which indicates that body image disturbance, drive for thinness, and eating disorders do occur in older women. It investigates how society’s changing beauty ideal may have affected the body image of different generations.
The majority of this study has focused on college-aged populations and middle-aged adult. It has found that body dissatisfaction in women remains apparent in midlife and may increase as older women gain weight. The research shows that the middle-aged group, as compared to the elderly group, had more drive for thinness and eating disorders than the elderly group. The elderly group reported body size preferences and levels of body dissatisfaction that was similar to the younger women. Thus, this makes the author gives a conclusion that sociocultural standards of body image and pressures toward thinness affect different generations of older women in similar ways. However, we could see that the author does research on body image and eating disorders have focused almost exclusively on younger, adolescents and elderly people.
But, the author fails to draw a positive relationship between the fear of body appearance and disordered eating, this makes me have a lack of view of the connection between two of them and how they relate to each other. Nevertheless, this source will be useful for my research paper because it indicates how society’s changing beauty ideal may have affected the body image of different generations. This helps me to support my claim of the concerns about an aging appearance and how the people view of the elderly population. Marita McCabe is a professor who is leading the Health and Ageing Research Group at Swinburne University of Technology. She has conducted a range of research in the area of aging, body image, sexual health, and depression. Marita has published more than 400 refereed articles about these areas and her research has attracted more than $12 million in Category
This article conducts a study which has consistently demonstrated that the media primarily focuses on thin female images, which perpetuate body image dissatisfaction among women. The study investigated media influences on men’s and women’s body perception. Participants were 60 men and 60 women. Men overestimated their chest, waist, and thighs and underestimated their hips. Women overestimated the size of all body parts. Both men’s and women’s ideal body was different from their current bodies. The research shows that men’s perceptions of their ideal body are affected by media exposure, as well as women’s. These finding helps the author to make a conclusion that media contributes a big impact on the ideal body of men and women. However, this study seems like only evaluated the memory of the media influence and did not also investigate the current impact of that influence.
There has been a little attempt in past research studies to assess exposure to the media and the influence it has on male body image, but there was no attempt in the study to assess the actual impact of the media on participants’ body image. Nevertheless, this source will be useful for my research essay because it has a study which proves that social media has changed the perspective of men and women about their ideal body image and how media exposure contributes to the body perceptions and attitudes. I will most likely use the evidence of this study to prove my view that the media is one of the factors that influence the body image when we were young and support the idea that media gives us the idea of we should exercise more. Nguyen, Trung. “Personal Interview”. Feb 8, 2019 Trung is my uncle and a professional bodybuilder in Vietnam. He earns lots of awards in bodybuilding competion such as Saigon Muscle Contest, Male’s National Physique Championship, and National Physique Committee.
In these bodybuilding competitions, he needs to develop and maintain a pleasing body and balanced physique. Trung spends out to build muscle at the gym and get on a very strict diet. In some days, he goes to the gym twice and burns nearly 5,000 calories in order to bulk his body. I think he would be a suitable person for me to interview because he experienced a lot about his appearance in the past. He shared that he used to weight 300 lbs when he was a teenager and the body image is a motivation for him to lose weight. In our interview, Trung really focuses on “Why it is so hard to love our own bodies”. He stressed that none of us in this world was born and love what God gave us. Each of us has different views of beauty and different views of body ideal. We usually have low self-esteem in our appearance and think that we appear in the wrong ways. Trung gives advice that each of us should have our own body positivity in order to love ourselves because he said that self-love is not based on what others think about us, but it based on how we feel about ourselves.
However, his information might be bias and lack of studies. Everything he said in the interview was not acknowledged by anyone, so I do not really think all of the information that he said was credible enough. Nevertheless, he used to experienced a hard journey in losing 100lbs and I can use his idea that “body positivity is different for everyone and that’s a beautiful thing about it” in order to prove that body positivity could encourage us to stop thinking negative about our bodies and remain what we have. Shagar, Pravina Santhira, et al.
She is currently pursuing her post-graduate studies in Community Medicine at PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research in India. This article reviews an investigation of the association between body image concerns and weight-related behaviors of adolescents and emerging adults. Body dissatisfaction has been found among adolescents and young adults, with a high percentage of young females and males in the United States having body dissatisfaction issues. The author then gives the result of a study that out of 46 studies, 45 studies reported a positive relationship between body image concerns and weight-related behaviors. This means that higher body dissatisfaction had a significant association in the development of eating disorders and extreme weight-loss behaviors.
Thus, this makes the the author claim that body image concerns play a significant role in weight-related behaviors of adolescents and emerging adults. However, the author points out from her study that a high percentage of adolescents and emerging adults have body dissatisfaction issues, could lead to the higher they desire to change the way they look. But, the author does not give any evidence which could support that. Thus, this makes me a little bit concern about whether that fact was credible. Nevertheless, this article is very useful for my research paper because it proves the significance of health issues associated with body image concerns highlights the need to clarify the relationship between body image concerns and weight-related behaviors for the development of effective strategies that help prevent negative body image.
Thus, this systematic review could help me to enable a more comprehensive understanding of the association between body image concerns and weight-related behaviors in adolescents and emerging adults in my essay. Taylor, Rosie. “Is It Better to Be ‘Fat but Fit’ or ‘Slim but Sedentary’?” Rosie Taylor is a freelance journalist who specializes in personal finance, consumer, health and medical issues for The Telegraph newspaper. This is a credible article because The Telegraph is a national British daily newspaper published in London and is distributed across the UK and internationally. It also maintains an international reputation for the quality and BBC has described it as “one of the world’s greatest titles”
This newspaper discusses whether it is better to be ‘Fat but Fit’ or ‘Slim but Sedentary. Rosie opens by stating that if someone has a body mass index (BMI) doesn’t mean that they are healthy and then because when you are inactive and slim will be less healthy than when you are active and overweight. The author gives a study of failing to exercise and just sitting on a desk all day could have more risk of cancer and diabetes and overweight people usually exercise at an extreme level like a professional rugby player. This makes the author conclude that being “slim but sedentary” is the worst thing for your health and could lead you to have some serious illnesses such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. In contrast, being “fat but fit” could have you to improve mental health, increase muscle mass, and heart rate. However, this newspaper focuses mostly on healthy lifestyles and fitness while my research paper is written about body image.
It is a lack of information about my topic for me to write. Nevertheless, this article is useful for my research paper because I will take the term “metabolically healthy obese” which means “fat but fit” and use it to prove my point that how body image affects the health among the society nowadays. Also, I can pair it to state that the body ideal these days are “problematic thin-ideal”. Jane Wardle is a scientist of cancer prevention and a director of the Cancer Research UK at University College London. She was known for one of the pioneers of health psychology who works on the contribution of psychology to public health in the UK. She is also an expert in the area of eating behavior and obesity.
This journal conducts a study of the associations between body mass index (BMI), weight perception, and attempts to lose weight in male and female university students from 22 countries. The 22 countries were grouped into five geopolitical/economic areas for regional analyses which are North-Western Europe and the USA, Central and Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean, Pacific Asia, South America. The author starts to compare the perceived overweight across these five regions and then gives the result that Asian countries show the highest level of trying to lose weight. The author also points out that more women felt aware of being overweight than men and then trying to lose weight. In conclusion, Perceptions of overweight and attempts to lose weight are highest in the group of Asian where body weight is generally low. Many young women are slim and for them, perceiving themselves as overweight or trying to lose weight would be entirely inappropriate.
This means that investigations of perceptions of weight and weight loss attempts need to ascertain the balance of over and under the perception of overweight. However, this study examines weight perceptions and weight loss behavior among university students from 22 countries, and Asian countries show the highest level of trying to lose weight. Then, the entire journal focuses mostly on Asian countries about BMI, weight perception and weight control while my research paper focuses mostly on body image in America. Thus, this makes me have less information about America to write. Nevertheless, this journal will be useful for my research paper because it gives me the idea that recognizing being overweight is one step on the way to implementing changes in diet and physical activity; the next stage is trying to lose weight. This helps me to prove my view that body image is a motivation for us to lose weight and individuals usually fail to engage in healthy weight control when it is necessary.
