Body Insecurity In America

What is the perfect body? Is it weighing a certain weight? Having enough muscles? Being a certain color? People across America struggle with their body image everyday. In this country, body insecurity is one of the major social complications. Something has to be done to keep people, mainly teens, from getting anorexia or feeling like they have to take steroids. Some solutions that might help are healthy yet tasty foods in school cafeterias, more strict physical education classes, and more realistics appearances in the media. Students throw away so much food on a daily basis because they simply do not like it. Children and teens go home everyday feeling hungry. This could be altered if cafeterias would provide healthy foods that are enjoyable. They could provide more strawberries and less broccoli, which they know that no kid will ever eat unless forced to. Congress recently has gotten ready to overhaul the Child Nutrition Act of 2015. “The Act funds the National School Lunch Program and National School Breakfast Program, programs that weren’t originally welcomed by many people because mass production of healthier foods can become costly” (Olson). Mainly …show more content…
This comes from seeing unrealistic photos on magazine covers and all over social media. Girls are the worst at feeling like they need to look a certain way to fit in. “Eighty per cent of women say the images on television, movies, fashion magazines, and advertising makes them feel insecure” (Villagomez). A way to fix this insecurity that they have is to have more realistic figures as the covers of magazines and on social media. Maybe for every skinny woman in a magazine, have a more fitted woman on the next page. For every body builder that you see on Instagram, have an article on a bigger man that can sing amazing. People need to stop thinking that their image defines them and that starts with