Analyzing Online For Issues About Body Image - 1441 Words

When researching online for issues about body image, one can definitely find articles concerning young women. Of course, when hearing about body image issues, one can only think of anorexia, obesity, and low self-esteem. However, a body image problem is not just an issue affecting young women; it’s actually an issue that is also affecting young men. Over time, a growing number of young men have been showing issues with their body image. This is mainly due to the way media portrays men in television shows, movies, and advertisements. Because of this, it leads to low self-esteem, peer pressure, and over exercising among young men. Low self-esteem can be caused by having the feeling of being inferior to everyone and always having the mindset†¦show more content†¦This makes a young man think that he isn’t good enough for the standards that the media puts out. The expectations that the media puts out about men become adopted into society’s expectations. A per sonal trainer did an experiment where he gained seventy pounds of weight and tried losing it all. He wanted to know how his clients felt whenever he helped trained them to lose weight. This meant he had to change his lifestyle and eating habits to a way an unhealthy person is. â€Å"I m doing this as an experiment! I used to be a fit guy, not the fat guy, Manning wanted to turn around and explain. I m a lot more self-conscious now. There was a total lack of confidence in the way I felt in public because I wasn t the fit guy anymore. (Strickland). He had noticed how everyone looked at him and the food he ate, and had a disgusted look on their face. According to Drew Manning, it was an emotional struggle for him when doing the experiment. Another way a young man’s self-esteem can be lowered is by being bullied about body weight or depression. Bullying and depression would usually happen mostly in a young man’s teenage years. Peers may look at a certain individual and t ease them for their body weight. It can be that the individual is skinny or fat that the teasing starts to happen. When bullied, this can cause the certain individual to fall into depression which lowers the self-esteem more. This can cause the