Body Image Outline
Introduction
1. Beauty. It poses the age old question, is beauty in the eye of the beholder or is beauty only skin deep?
a. Where does the obsession to be beautiful come from?
b. We are all taught at such an early age that looks do not matter, yet we live in a society that seems to contradict this very idea.
c. Magazines, reality shows, billboards… they all promote a certain body image as being beautiful, and it is a far cry from the average woman’s size 12.
i. (FIRST SLIDE)
d. Body image is a pressing issue that plagues all men and women alike.
2. The obsession of many young girls and guys over their body image has led to an increasing number of people who have developed an eating disorder to try to deal with their lack of self-esteem or other related problems.
a. According to an article in Psychology Today, the most common of these eating disorders include Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating, and Muscle Dysmorphia.
3. In a recent survey of 185 students on a college campus through the Nutrition Journal, 58% felt pressure to be a certain weight, and of the 83% that hardcore dieted for weight loss, over half of them were already at a normal weight pre dieting.
a. It was also recorded through the ANAD Foundation that eating disorders are recorded to be the 3rd most chronic illness of young adults.
Body
(SECOND SLIDE)
1. The media’s use of airbrushing is one of the major causes of these impossible standards of beauty.
a. Leah Hardy, a former editor of Cosmopolitan, admitted that this is true... many of stick-thin models in Cosmo were actually struggling with eating disorders, but were airbrushed to look less unwell.
b. In an interview with the Daily Mail, Hardy stated that the models had 22-inch waits, but they also had breasts and great skin. They had teeny tiny ankles and thin thighs, but they still had luscious hair and full cheeks. Thanks to retouching, our readers never saw the horrible, hungry downside of skinny. The models’
1. Beauty. It poses the age old question, is beauty in the eye of the beholder or is beauty only skin deep?
a. Where does the obsession to be beautiful come from?
b. We are all taught at such an early age that looks do not matter, yet we live in a society that seems to contradict this very idea.
c. Magazines, reality shows, billboards… they all promote a certain body image as being beautiful, and it is a far cry from the average woman’s size 12.
i. (FIRST SLIDE)
d. Body image is a pressing issue that plagues all men and women alike.
2. The obsession of many young girls and guys over their body image has led to an increasing number of people who have developed an eating disorder to try to deal with their lack of self-esteem or other related problems.
a. According to an article in Psychology Today, the most common of these eating disorders include Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating, and Muscle Dysmorphia.
3. In a recent survey of 185 students on a college campus through the Nutrition Journal, 58% felt pressure to be a certain weight, and of the 83% that hardcore dieted for weight loss, over half of them were already at a normal weight pre dieting.
a. It was also recorded through the ANAD Foundation that eating disorders are recorded to be the 3rd most chronic illness of young adults.
Body
(SECOND SLIDE)
1. The media’s use of airbrushing is one of the major causes of these impossible standards of beauty.
a. Leah Hardy, a former editor of Cosmopolitan, admitted that this is true... many of stick-thin models in Cosmo were actually struggling with eating disorders, but were airbrushed to look less unwell.
b. In an interview with the Daily Mail, Hardy stated that the models had 22-inch waits, but they also had breasts and great skin. They had teeny tiny ankles and thin thighs, but they still had luscious hair and full cheeks. Thanks to retouching, our readers never saw the horrible, hungry downside of skinny. The models’