ObliviousNation

This is one topic that hits home for me, I had to take my little sisters friend to the hospital 6 months ago because of Bulimia related medical. She had passed out so my sister called me. And it is 100% the medias fault.

Just yesterday I was watching CNN at work and they were talking about Lindsay Lohan being a Role Model. HAHAHAHAHA

Can we please get serious, an actress with an eating disorder and a sever addiction to Cocaine as a role model??

This is what children have to look up to these days. It is a very very sad time in America.

cataclyzm

As materialism and money and status become more and more fashionable - the less people will come to like themselves and look to change the basis of who they are.
Money and economic "success" don't bring happiness and yet it is what every government on the planet solely seeks to achieve (even it means killing people in far away countries such as Iraq in order to achieve it). Even parents who supposedly love their children hope their children will be affluent and wealthy without taking into consideration the true happiness of that young life. People are in love with money and obsessed with status and image and this is a growing phenomenon in the world today.
It is well known that life is a journey for every one of us on this planet and the purpose is not to acquire as much as possible in terms of housing or cars or finance - because not one of these things can we take with us beyond this life. The things that last beyond this life are the only things that can bring us peace and acceptance enough to love ourselves and to create a better world for every human being.
I'm not sure if we can evolve to that next step in thinking beyond greed because people so readily sacrifice even their own children to the God of money and acquisition. But that road of materialism has only one end and it is self destruction of the individual (through growing self hate), and of greater humanity (probably through war).
I believe we can change by beginning to be more at peace with ourselves. To find some way of accepting and liking who we are is truly the road to saving this world. I don't always succeed but today I am going to try and like and love who I am. I won't ask for more than the sunshine and a walk outside and I won't feel I have to buy something in order to feel valuable. It begins with me.
I hope and pray for the peace of every human being on the planet.

discoman

Medical evidence proves thin people do live longer lives, and have less medical problems, as compared to people who are over weight.Thin is still the best shape to be in.

RushBaby'92

I think the problem is how teen girls are getting thin. Bulemia and anorexia are both potentially deadly diseases, and both can lead to brittle bones and weight problems later in life.
As a teen girl myself, I watch my friends skip lunch every day and report how many calories they've taken in. My closest friends, even, limit themselves to 500 calories or less a day. Our school requires us to run 2 miles every other day, and each day is 8 hours long. A teenager cannot survive on that kind of diet. I have gone to extremes to get thin, too, but realized that I'd rather be normal and healthy than extremely thin just to get a date. Fashion designers talk about how they will pull models off the runway who are under a certain weight; I haven't seen a single change. Unfortunately women have been stuck in these horrible standards for 40 years, since Twiggy arrived on set. In high school, one thin girl is all it takes for the rest of us to starve ourselves. This was a very important thread to start.

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