According to the below mentioned Time Magazine article, young women in the U.S. between the ages of 16-24 are TWELVE TIMES MORE LIKELY to die of Anorexia than ANY other cause of death. Period. It is the number one cause of death [by far] in that age group.
Wow. That blows my mind.
That definitely makes me feel a heavy weight on my shoulders to raise my 5 girls [and my boy actually - boys are succumbing to this in greater and greater numbers too!] with a healthy body image - such a fine line between encouraging them to be healthy and fit and not encouraging the "need to be skinny" at all costs thing. *sigh*.
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Wow, when you combine that with the statistics from the Time article about obesity, who does that leave with a healthy body?
And this is why I'm hit with a wave of nausea *every* time I hear my MIL casually talking about how my six-year-old niece needs to watch her weight (and she's little-kid-chubby, NOT overweight at all; as if that mattered) to any and all who will listen with no regard to the damage she's causing that may not be evident for years to come.
This is so scary. When will the media wake up and stop bombarding our youth with pictures of "perfect" people, which are nothing but doctored-up images? It sickens me the number of high schoolers who want plastic surgery as their graduation presents! Why can't we be happy with the way God made us? Why are we constantly being told that we aren't good enough? Your post is awesome. You know exactly what is important and I know you are instilling that in your children.
but the big thing with them is not the "need to be skinny" as much as it is the need for them to be loved, encouraged and that they be valued. they are over-pleasers. your kids definitely know that you love them. now, they may not know who reads stories to them....but they know you love them!!! LOL!!
If you agree that steroid abuse is also a body image issue then boys are almost in crisis as much as girls.
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