This image makes us so sad!
In what kind of world we live in every fifth child has an eating disorder?
Slim, lean, eating disorder.. If you look at the models in magazines, fashion catalogs and on television, it quickly becomes clear why so many people, nowadays suffer from an eating disorder , customised to women. The ideal of beauty, which is specified by the media is clear: Only those who are slim,it is considered attractive and beautiful.
That the media world is a distorted picture of our society and that is cheated on almost all images via image processing, everyone should really know. And yet we are subtly influenced by them. Young people quickly feel insecure, doubt their own appearance. You do not feel beautiful enough, you are not afraid to conform to the beauty ideal. One fifth of all 11 to 17 year-olds. Today there is a suspicion of an eating disorder, such as the Child and Adolescent Health Survey of the Robert Koch Institute showed. A frightening number.
Exactly with this topic also dealt an image that is currently spreading like wildfire on the Internet.
It makes it clear that children seek out role models often from the media. You do not even realize that the utopian ideals that are tricked them there, you have nothing to do with reality. Many break at this pressure, end up in a depression or eating disorder.
Therefore it is up to us to serve the children as an example, grant them courage and strengthen their self-esteem. It is important that children learn from an early age, like a healthy diet works. You should diet and exercise are introduced with fun and joy of the topics and to build a healthy body image and self-confidence. No child should ever hear the words: -You’re too fat.- Rather than discourage them and shut down, we need to strengthen her back and make her self-conscious.
Only when we stop themselves, a utopian ideal of beauty behind vie near, the company is in the we and our children live, change finally.