The Perfect Body?

With all these models out there today with their airbrushed pictures and super skinny/muscular bodies, it's almost become the norm to want to look like them. Specifically for women (Men will be my next blog post), there are a lot of weight doubts that come into play.


"However, the social vision of the "perfect" body is simply not attainable for most people. Simple biology prevents the average American woman, who weighs 140 lbs and stands 5'4" tall, from conforming to a body image idealized by fashion models who stand 5'11" tall and weigh only 117 lbs. (it's worth noting that fashion models, under intense pressure to conform to this ideal body image, are at higher than normal risk of anorexia nervosa and other eating disorders)."



We saw in class just how much pictures can be fixed, how many pounds can be shed through photo-editing software, but the majority of people do not. All they see are the "perfect bodies" that the media displays to them. Everyone wants to be perfect, right?

Link the the entire article (which is worth reading, in my opinion) is below.

http://www.healthtree.com/articles/eating-disorders/anorexia/causes/

Picture 2

Credit goes to http://www.profectuscoaching.com/peer-pressure.php for the picture.

Keeping Up With The Jonses

Finally, a post about adult peer pressure! There's not much I can say, this article really covers it all. So because it's a short post, I'll find a picture or two on the internet (as opposed to drawing one myself last time) and post them here.

http://www.newpittsburghcourieronline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=268:adult-peer-pressure&catid=41:business&Itemid=37

Teenage Marijuana

So, this is probably going to be the last post about teens I'm doing, there are other aspects of peer pressure out there. Anyways, according to a study done by the University of Michigan in 2008, around 32.4% of twelfth-graders in 2007 were using marijuana. (At their school, maybe, it doesn't really say.) However, this post is not about negative peer pressure, it's about positive peer pressure.

"According to the Partnership for a Drug-Free America Attitude Tracking Study, two-thirds of youth ages 13-17 say losing their parents' respect is one of the main reasons they don't smoke marijuana or use other drugs."

I pulled this quote out of the article for a specific reason, then bolded part of it for the same reason. The bolded part is an example of positive peer pressure, although parents may not be considered "peers" by most. It may be a parent-child relationship, but many teenagers, especially when they get to be around 15, start to view their parents more as equals than superiors. So, anyway, that's all the time I have for tonight, link to full article below.

http://parentingteens.about.com/od/marijuana/a/teensmarijuanadruguse.htm