Body Image Pressure Affects Boys

In "Body-Image Pressure Increasingly Affects Boys" by Jamie Santa Cruz, the author argues that cultural ideals are becoming an equal opportunity anxiety-inducer, and eating disorders are increasingly common in men, but the symptoms in men and women don't look the same. Statistically speaking, Santa Cruz states that 18 percent of boys are highly concerned about their weight and physique (1). Which causes young men to partake in activities that aren’t necessarily good for their body, such as becoming depressed, drug abuse, and drinking excessive amounts of liquor.
I agree with Santa Cruz as she uses her own research and that of other psychologists and pediatricians. We are so used to hearing of young women starving themselves or going out of the country to get surgery; that we are
If that’s the case we need to understand that it’s not only a problem with young ladies, but young men as well. Young men are trying to lose weight or build up their muscle mass, so they think they need to resort to steroids or even a powdered protein shake and unfortunately neither one is the way to go. Santa Cruz states, “A 2012 study of adolescents reveled that muscle-enhancing behaviors are pervasive among both high school and middle males: more than a third is consuming protein shakes and 6 percent admitted to using steroids” (4).
Protein shakes are not an alternative route from steroids to gain muscle. Protein shakes have a steroid in them called Anabolic Androgens Steroids that can cause you problems in the long run. There are several men even women that have taken AAS and been diagnosed with different things like mental disorders, cardiovascular problems and fluctuating testosterone levels. Instead of women experiencing difficulties with testosterone levels you have problems with “the development of facial hair, male-pattern baldness, clitoral enlargement, and alterations in menstrual cycle”(Gruber&Pope