Quotes

"It is hard to not be effected by the media bombarding us constantly with the message, "Thin is in!" On TV commercials we are told to "lose weight fast" or "exercise for thirty minutes" to have a beautiful body. Magazines displaying thin, attractive women try to convince us that we are not okay until we "slim our thighs." The overriding message is that we need to change something about ourselves in order to be loved or successful. In particular, if we have thin, fit bodies, 'our lives will be perfect'" ([|Yarborough, 1999]). //This is exactly what the media does to people all around the world, it tells us who to be and what to look like in order to be beautiful and excepted by surrounding peers. TV commercials flash the ideas to be thin with a new diet pill with results in just a few weeks. Magazines have women plastered on the front cover of every popular magazine beautiful and thin. These are the things that seep into the brains of the youth and this is where the people begin to deeply care about the way they look and how they are perceived by others. People then start picking out what is wrong with them and may result in low confidence. People did need to understand that everyone is different. If every person in the world was thin and had nothing wrong with them, there would be no diversity in the world. Thin may be in, in the fashion industry but, being unique should be in style. Beauty is a thing that has been distorted throughout the years. The world needs to be brought back to reality that being a size 2 is not the most important thing in the world.(Rachel Golub) //   "I look at myself and pick out the things I don't like. No matter how much I work out, I never get muscle tone in my butt and hip area." -Tyra Banks //This could effect the way some girls who look up to Tyra Banks see themselves. It could benefit them by seeing that everyone has insecurities and things about themselves that they don't like. At the same time it could also make them more insecure about themselves seeing that a supermodel could think that she is fat, people might begin comparing themselves to her and be effected in a negative way. ////<span style="color: rgb(78,20,215);">(Alexis Lastihenos) //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span style="color: rgb(78,20,215);"> "Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishments." -Maxwell Maltz <span style="color: rgb(179,38,232); font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0,167,255);"><span style="color: rgb(0,196,255);"><span style="color: rgb(1,5,30);"><span style="color: rgb(0,10,255);">//<span style="color: rgb(92,38,217); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">This statement made by Maxwell Maltz is short, yet very powerful. If one looks at an obstacle and thinks that they can not overtake it then they will not be able too. That is the same thing with everyday accomplishments due to insecurities about ones looks. A lack of confidence in oneself can stop a person from taking risks and trying new things because they are afraid of failure, but if no risks are taken then there are no achievements made. Therefore a lack of confidence can affect society and the people within the society greatly. Poor self image is not recognized as a problem that can affect people in such a negative way and on such a large scale, but it is an epidemic throughout the United States, especially among teenagers. This problem has slowly been recognized and thankfully there are organizations that are making initiatives to stop this large problem.(Theodora Misthos) //<span style="color: rgb(92,38,217); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> "Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometime lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million American's suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women." -Tipper Gore <span style="color: rgb(224,46,206);"><span style="color: rgb(0,10,255);">//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span style="color: rgb(80,34,191);">Through a wide variety of media, the youth's population has been manipulated to believe that thin is the key to being happy with who you are and having confidence about one's self. With more and more people buying fashion magazines and watching commercials on television they feel pressured to start losing weight. Every person has fallen victim to believeing that they need to lose weight and have questioned themselves on numerous occasions about why they can't look like that. If there are 300 million people living in America and 5 million people have an eating disorder, that means that one in every sixty people have an eating disorder. That is way too many people who feel uncomfortable in their own skin.(Rachel Golub) // <span style="color: rgb(17,39,232);"><span style="color: rgb(0,10,255);">"The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self-image and you change the personality and the behavior." -Maxwell Maltz    <span style="color: rgb(0,10,255);"><span style="color: rgb(17,39,232);"> <span style="color: rgb(67,27,208); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">//This quote is true in various ways. People always feel more confident when they 'have a new haircut' or 'lose weight' or even 'get a new outfit.' This shows that self image certainly does affect the personality of a person. People should remain themselves no matter what. In many of the quotes,listed above, you can see that there are different feeling when it comes to eating disorders. Some who have lost weight have an obsession with losing more and more weight than necessary and others become depressed. Eating disorders change who a person is. Maybe once a fun person to hang out with, now feels they are not perfect and start becoming neurotic about what they do and what they digest. This shows that a change in self-image, can cause a personality change.(Giana Castellanos)//