Americas Ideal Weight

Staton 1 Morgan Staton Professor Townsend English 1102 18 March 2000 The Ideal Weight American women constantly struggle with acceptance and appearance. Daily exposure to images of waif thin models and articles of diets that “will improve your appearance and self-esteem” only add to the strife. This mass exposure sways our struggle for acceptance by failing to show us diverse body types. With the huge number of females with eating disorders (5-10 million) in this country, the media who …

…the media does not directly cause eating disorders and weight obsessions, yet they do affect the way Americans perceive themselves. Perhaps if the media concentrated on a variety of body types and included a more positive message regarding health and self-esteem; this issue could be reduced significantly. People might not concentrate on one particular body type and in time could learn to value their health and normality of their body and its size and shape.