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Considering Weight

By: Scotch Q. Ennis..

Though it may be hard to imagine, there was a time when excess body fat was not a stigma at all; in fact, excess body fat was once considered an indicator of status. The thinking went that a person with body fat had the means to eat well and to do so regularly. It should be noted that this perception existed during a time and in places where food shortages and famine could and did occur.

Times have certainly changed.

Excess body heft, especially in Western nations, not only isn't seen in a favorable light any more, there's now a broad negative stigma connected to overweight. This stigma is demonstrated in the fact that, in most Western nations, food is abundant and easily found (though not always acquired easily, depending on one's current existence). But food abundance isn't the only answer for a turnabout in beliefs about body fat. Two other circumstances also offer understanding: it's now well known that excess body heft is damaging; and the mass media regularly exhibits imagery of slender people.

The media's presentation of lean is a forceful image-maker. The image of lithe bodies, often exhibited in highly pleasing ways, leaves a substantial imprint. And the media presents these visuals time and time again, so perceptions are retained.

This isn't an effort to suggest the media is pushing visuals as a means of poisoning society's values. We must all accept that we are responsible for that which we believe, and how we respond to our values. Still, it's illusion to argue that the media's wide reach doesn't impact belief.

Essentially, the media's depiction of the thin, majestic body image is used for commerce. The media is trying to convey a pleasing image and affix a commercial item to it. They're looking for profit, and they're consciously presenting body image to make it happen.

But trouble can occur when the public endeavors to imitate the "perfect" body visual they get from the media. Eating dysfunctions are a possible result. The extensiveness of food disorders in Western society is surely related to frequent media imagery of slim, and the innuendo that a lean body is exceptionally pleasing.

There is additionally the emotional distress and suffering experienced by people with a body type that's different from slender. Heavy persons are sometimes subject to psychological beatings because of their figure. They're at the other end of the epitome. They're beneath others -- or so the assessment and the behavior sometimes goes.

A healthy body is a good thing. A fit body is a good thing. But, though it may be difficult to do in the face of so much feedback, each of us must develop our own value system as to what's a desirable body type, and what is not. If we let the media create this value system for us, we put ourselves in a vulnerable, and potentially damaging position.

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