Thursday, December 22, 2011

Ideal Body Obsession, could endanger lives


Recent research found that half of adolescent girls and a third of teenage boys in England willing to do extreme measures in order to get the perfect body shape and ideal body weight.

The pressure to get the perfect body shape, make one out of 10 teenage boys taking steroids for his body muscular. While one of eight teenage girls to consume slimming drugs or high doses of laxatives in order to slim.

The researchers surveyed 810 adolescents aged 11 to 16 years. The study found that more than 50% of teenage women and 30% of teenage boys comparing their posture by posture other teens they see on TV. 25% of both genders are expressing are willing to do surgery so they can gain posture as they wish.

Rosi Prescott, chief executive of Central YMCA, a charity which commissioned the survey, said: "Young people seem less and less confident with their appearance and body image. There is a growing trend to improve body shape with a quick way that can damage health.

Interestingly, what was once seen as a problem that affects teenage girls now has spread to teenage boys. The root cause of this problem is the pressure on teens to have the ideal body image is an expensive and unrealistic. "

The study was strengthened by the fact, that at the beginning of this year-olds in the UK about 5 years old, was admitted to hospital suffering from anorexia. Today, all party group of British MPs, will initiate an investigation on the importance of body shape for teenagers in the country.

This research will also find out the causes of anorexia, obsession with body shape ideal and motive behind the act of hurting yourself because of the obsession. From the initial survey in 2011, parliament blamed the culture of celebrity, fashion industry, and advertising that encourages young people to get obsessed with the ideal body shape.

Jo Swinson, a member of parliament who will lead the investigation, said that people who perform plastic surgery to get their ideal body shape is often misguided. They try to get into shape like on TV and magazines but these images are computer engineering.

He said, "One way to overcome it is to encourage people to feel confident with their bodies." This study will also involve dieticians, plastic surgeons, nutritionists, and estheticians to obtain evidence about adolescent obsession over their ideal body shape.

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