Log #3

Is Social Media Causing Eating Disorders

Living a life in the world, the world that social media exposes wide range of information to people and without any sensory, people (especially young girls who cares their appearance so much) are easily get twist concepts about the beauty. What’s worse, some girls always dissatisfied their appearances, their body shapes, even all of themselves. To attain their goal—being the one who they want to be, girls keep a diet unhealthy or do some extreme ways. Because of the wrong and twist notions of girls and the dangerous ways of diet, so many girls suffer from eating disorder. Cited the investigation from the Huffington Post, patients are more and more girls who are under 15 years old. It is the very time to face this problem and lead the girls, teenagers, even the whole society return to the right ways!

Speaking of the solutions of this problem, educating may be the important and feasible way to practice. First, parents and schools should educate children that what is real beauty and what is really matter to them. Moreover, there is no standard to evaluate what kind of body shape is good or not. Next, parents and schools also need to make children learn how to tell right from wrong while facing lot of information from social media. The data from social media are countless and without any filter and proved. Therefore, they should have the ability of critical thinking.

Teenagers, children who are in this age, are still lack of certain types of knowledge and easily influenced by peers and outer worlds. Therefore, it is a crucial period to input the health ideas to teenagers. With the parents and schools’ help and concern, this kind of tragedies would decrease and teenagers also have a happy and health childhood instead of staying at hospital unhappily.

Reference

https://netsanity.net/social-media-eating-disorders/