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The purpose of this study is to examine between obesity and how it causes depression on adolescent girls.

throughout the U.S. during the past 25 years has led policymakers to rank it as

As this disorder is most commonly seen in women, millions of women every day are being bombarded with the media’s idea of the “perfect” body. These unrealistic images are being portrayed in women’s magazines all over the country. The message being sent to women is that they are not pretty or skinny enough. The average American woman is about 5,4 and weighs 140 pounds, while the average American model is 5,11 and weighs 117 pounds. As a common example, thirty years ago, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14 and had the “ideal” body size and shape, but today the standards are getting much smaller. As the beauty ideals continue to get smaller in our society, body image within American women will continue to plummet. As these Magazines portray and compare happiness with being thin, therefore some feel, as they are not thin enough. Which will lead to them being to being unhappy. As women of all ages are believed to hold unrealistic ideals of body shape and size, when these ideals can be both physically and emotionally unhealthy to

What is childhood obesity? Childhood obesity is when a child is above the normal weight for his or her age and height. There is an epidemic of childhood obesity in the United States and throughout the world. According to Center for Disease Control and Prevention, “The percentage of children aged 6–11 years in the United States who were obese increased from 7% in 1980 to nearly 20% in 2008. Nearly 43 million children under the age of five were overweight in 2010” (Child Obesity Facts). A serious medical condition affects children and adolescents. Childhood obesity is an increasing health problem in the world and unless actions are taken to prevent it, this problem will continue. Even though there are many causes such as environment, fast food,

The issue identified for this project is childhood obesity. Obesity in children is one of the most pressing medical problems in the United States. Childhood obesity is a serious health condition that can affect children and adolescents and lead into adulthood. Obesity occurs when there is an excess of body fat and for children it occurs when they are well above the normal weight for his or her age and height. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, known as CDC (2017), the percentage of children with obesity in the United States has more than tripled since the 1970’s.

Childhood obesity may lead to low self-esteem and then eventually to depression. According to the Mayo Clinic staff "[l]ow self-esteem can create overwhelming feelings of hopelessness in some overweight children." If children lose hope that their lives will improve, they may become depressed. Staff at the Mayo Clinic argue that "[a] depressed child may lose interest in normal activities, sleep more than usual or cry a

There has been a major rise in childhood obesity in the 21st century. Childhood obesity can negatively affect a person’s life for years to come. Obesity can lead to diabetes, hypertension, and ultimately death. Being that students spend most of their day in school, schools really should be involved in fixing this major problem. In order to combat childhood obesity, schools should focus on teaching children the importance of healthy lifestyles, give students the opportunity to exercise, and stress the value of keeping their minds and bodies healthy for the future.

Childhood Obesity is a cardiovascular disease that shapes the youth of our country. Corpulence is a state of being that must be taken solemnly. Recently, studies have shown that the amount of overweight adolescents is steadily growing annually. With the increasing number of childhood obesity occurrences, individuals are left wondering what actually causes youth stoutness. Childhood obesity is a serious disorder that has an assortment of ways to start, various effects that could become more perilous as the child gets older, and a plethora of ways to prevent obesity.

Anxiety, a stage of fear and worry, has ensued in an increase of depressive moods in young women. In the findings of Berg, et al, the study has demonstrated that same-sex body competition among young females with magazine or TV models can result in a negative self-evaluation of one’s body and depressive moods (264). This indicates that competition of body shape among female adolescents can guide them to feel pressured by the expectations of their body, worry about who looks better, and eager to obtain the ideal body image. Philip Myers and Frank Biocca, researcher associates and directors, agree with Berg et al when they argue that “contrast between one’s real and ideal body may lead to the depressive and unhappy views of their present body, discontented views found among many dieting women but especially those with eating disorder” (129). In other words, Myers and Biocca believe that comparison between the actual and the ideal body illustrated by the media can lead to depression and eating disorders because a female’s goal is to obtain the ideal body seen on TV shows and

The result that were obtained with this experiment proofs that the hypothesis is somewhat correct. Blashill and Wilhelm found out that males who had a distorted body image, seeing themselves as underweight and also overweight, were the ones who reported to be more depressed. What was really surprising for them in the results is that the levels of depression on the undistorted group that perceived themselves as underweight were not further apart from the ones who perceived themselves as underweight because of a body image distortion. Another founding that they made is that this stays for a very long period of time. This experiment went on for thirteen years and during all this time this reminded constant.

These unrealistic images have falsely encouraged men and women to engage in disordered eating and have an obsession over their figures in order to achieve the body ideal portrayed by society through peers and the online worlds. Psychologists indicate disordered eating such as anorexia and bulimia as mental disorders – they are the decision to nourish with the belief that they will fit a certain body ideal standardised by society. According to a study by researchers at Bradley Hospital, Butler Hospital and Brown Medical School, negative body image often leads teenagers to feel depressed, anxious, and suicidal compared to teens diagnosed with other psychiatric illnesses. The study further finds out that the concern constantly occupies their brain

High calorie diet-induced obesity in children is a serious public health concern while considering short term and long term health risks of morbidity and mortality associated. A fast food diet is mostly energy dense in which one consumes higher amount of calorie and fat in one meal. It is clear that fast food chains are increasing across United States and in many other countries in the world because it is convenient, inexpensive, and it is appealing to young children and adolescents who do not know better about health. . “The United States now has approximately 250,000 fast food restaurants, and total fast food consumption has risen from 2% to 10% of total energy intake per person over a 20-year period (Hurt,

The media is not trying to have women, for example, think of their bodies as beautiful; the media does not care. Photographers that make use of photoshop claim their work is the “product of a sharp and observant eye” when in reality, their images are the product of a computer mouse reconstructing a real person’s body (Eggers 25). The people behind the camera take advantage of the youth’s self esteem, “ destroying their self-confidence” (Vaynshteyn). Correlated with low self esteem is depression, and countless adolescents face depression. Depression is precisely connected with the way women are depicted in magazines. As females observe other people of the same sex throughout the media, they realize that their body doesn’t measure up to the one viewed, causing girls to lack confidence in themselves. What the women really should be experiencing is not depression, but satisfaction because their body is not fake. Younger generations should be raised learning that advertisements with women are not real and that there are many different body types so that they do not have to face a low self

media, advertiseement and the fashion industry or family members might struggle with their own body image or criticism se on their kid’s’ weight,which lower their self- esteem which lower their self-esteem. In addition,it It becomes a problem as what these teenagers try to do is to fit in the judgmental society society of weight judgmental people which then lead to depression and eating disorders.

This backs up the data provided in the study that was mentioned in the previous paragraph. This study also researches the fact that it would be wise for adolescents who struggle with body image related problems to get therapy. Adolescents not receiving psychiatric treatment for body dissatisfaction issues were more commonly hospitalized for injuries but with the wrong diagnosis. It was even found that teens obsessed with body image had higher rates of suicidal behavior than teens with mental