The following contribution is of a friend of mine whose name is Mellisa Trouyet Camil. She is part of the Dove Self-Esteem Fund.
Did you know that...
Only two percent of thousands of women from 10 countries around the
world consider themselves beautiful?
Looking at fashion magazines for just three minutes lowers the self-
esteem of over 80% of women?
6 out of 10 teenage girls think they’d be happier if they were thinner?
While only 19% of teenage girls are “overweight”, 67% think they need
to “loose weight”?
The body fat of models and actresses portrayed in the media is at
least 10% less than that of healthy women?
Most women agree that there is more pressure today to “look a certain
way” than there was in our parents' generation?
The incidence of eating disorders is increasing at an alarming rate?
When women are asked what they fear most in life, most will cite the
possibility of gaining weight?
Young people are exposed to an average of 1000 advertisements a day?
The majority of the ads we see have been somehow altered using
retouching technology to erase and minimize imperfections?
What is the effect of living in a global society that consistently
bombards us with narrow definitions of what it means to be beautiful? The effect
of these trends is that too many girls develop low self-esteem from
hang ups about looks and consequently fail to reach their full
potential in later life.
That is why we created the Dove Self-Esteem Fund as an agent of
change to educate and inspire girls on a wider definition of beauty.
Committed to reaching 5 million young women by the end of 2010, the
Dove Self-Esteem Fund invites you to play a role in supporting and
promoting a wider definition of beauty. Please visit:

Nowadays it is widely known the trend toward being slim, a concept that in our society is always related to be attractive. Every single day we can see many advertisements on the media done by people who "are supposed” to be beautiful. However, the fact is that most of us are not alike.
We are constantly influenced by publicity that makes very serious judgments about being overweight.
The consequence of this pervase influence is that alters the conception of what should be really important for people, I mean we can not judge people by their appearance. We ought to set off other qualities and values.
Hi George,
Well I think that nowadays we are exposed to a lot of this kind of mistaken advertisements of beauty, we are constantly bombarded on T.V, magazines, cinema commercials, streets and roads pop publicity, in all the packing products and wherever we go etc. Unfortunately this situation encourage to the young people to be like the models and follow the tendency to be thinner.
Every young people should be knows the terrible consequences of the eating disorders. It’s important to know that everyone have a different complexion and metabolism and not all the people can be thinner. It’s sad that the teenager thought that if they loose weight they will be happier and that is the result of being exposed all the time to this kind of unreal and imaginative advertisements. Unfortunately mainly many young women are having eating disorders that injury and put in danger their lives. We should to encourage young people to eat well and healthy, to practice sports and do exercises; these actions help you to look and feel better but the main proposes are to be a healthier person and to prevent many terrible illnesses.
Our society is creating stereotypes of the beautiful people and there are many other important things that should be more value than only to judge the exterior appearance of the people. A beautiful person should not be only judge with the exterior appearance because beauty can also measure with our sentiments, thoughts, behaviors, soul, human being etc.
I think that now days our society should be change and the advertisements should be promote to cultivate and develop our internal beauty and not only the exterior beauty.
Have a beautiful and nice day!
It´s a real shame that our society considers beauty so important that don´t see the effects and damages it has been made to all people and the most frustating thing is that people believe it concept. I consider true what a well-known motto espress: “the beauty is in the eye beholder”, and is something subjective that depends on our likes. In addition, people shouldn´t depend on phisical appearances, I think we are complete human beings with a body, a spirit, sould and brain, which are the most beautiful and amazing things human beings have, on the other hand the sad point is that just people consider “perfect” just the first one (body) which it is inside each one person, because our internal body is the “perfect machine” and anything can supply it.
I would like that advertisements emphasize the complete concept of beauty people should have in order to develop our self-esteem and prevent eating desorders in teenagers and young women, in consequence, this world wouldn´t be so superficial and I consider that it is possible, because nowadays clothes’ designers have changed the concept of “perfect models” and they aren´t hired extremely thin models, in contrast, they accept models in good shape and a bit voluminuos body.
I consider true a proverb that said: “the happy heart, make beauty a face” and if people think about that, all concepts of beaty would be different and remember that a soul and a heart, we can´t make up, and that a good heart has its shine.
Hello teacher George:
Well, I choose this article because is very important to be informed about woman’s health, over all if this brings bigger problems as anorexia or bulimia, but is not time to look which is the guilty. However is easily to say that the publicity is the guilty and we don’t accept that the family and the society are guilty too. Now is time to do something about those problems, the publicity have to do their part, but I think the family have to do the most important part. We need to teach to our family that the beauty is into us and they must know that people have to love us for the inside and not for the appearance. The society needs recover their values to have a conscience about these important things and not for superficial thinks like an appearance. For that I think is very wonderful for me that companies like Dove do campaigns for woman’s health
Today the mass media presented to the society a stereotype of women with perfect physical qualities and highly stylized.
These stereotypes have affected mainly because teenagers imitate what they observe in these media and because of their low self-esteem problems come to suffer food as bulimia and anorexia, these problems are important as what is obesity.
The media should be aware of the influence they have on people's lives and not bring more problems to society, but rather seek solutions to showing real people and away from the sight of teenagers these models so thin.
Beauty is in the interior and we must be aware that despite what we see on television or elsewhere every human being is unique and we should not be equal to some you agree with our bodies and always live with dignity
Inside the society not only mexican but in other places of the world that we living many factors have been developed during the last years, it's the low self-esteem, many teenagers believe that have a thin body is the most beaty, but they don't think the consecuess that it's brings for example the anorexia and bullimia this problems have caused a war between the people against with designers and advertising, it's amazing how promoved the clothes with sizes very small, they have been caused in the population the low self-esteem.
Ok it's easy to say ok, the beauty is inside of each person but not, really we should think more seriously about this trasntorn, we have more conscieuns men and women about that and we don't critize when we look a fat person neither to reject him or her. Despite all good intentions about the brand of beauty in this case DOVE I believe is good, but its necesary to count with the power of force in each other.
Nowdays we found advertisements about slim girls and muscular boys, those people "in other words" are artificials.
I think that we have to do some exercise and eat healty food in order to have a healty body, don't try to look like to those people or stereotypes.
When you want to get a relationship with a special person you shoudn't to pay attention if she/he has blonde hair or if she/he has blue eyes or she/he has a perfect body, rather you have to pay attention in the feelings.
Maybe people should be funny, tipsy, witty, i don't know exactly but we never shouldn't be perfectionists lots and to be a little more sentient i think so.
Actually the people are obsess whit their bodys, to leave side other things that are more important like the feelings or senses, but the true is that when you really know somebody the physique is not important, I like the a woman intelligent, proactive, athletic, independet, somebody with i can talk, somebody to try to understandme. This characteristic are very importanat more than the physique attribute because if don´t exist this qualities the people can´t to establish a real relationship.
Sometimes the people think that a thin body its synonymous the healthy but its not, really the secret a good health is have a balance food, make excercise and sleep good.
Hi teacher!!!!!
This article is really likes me, because I am like this kind of women that used to compare their bodies with the models bodies, and in the most of the time I don’t agree with my self.
Unfortunately our self – Esteem are very poor, we life in a big depression that is provoked by our or self, we don’t appreciate all good things, values and qualities that make us letter people, and we just see all they defects that we have.
We believe that the must important is a beautiful body and nice face, but not see that the must important is be happy by our value just to be a human.
The professional and intellectual grow up, would have to be our parameter of beauty and not a nice face that finish with the time.
Oh my God, I have a big homework: “I have to love me by my self, but not by the things that I have”.
thanks and have a nice weekend
Interesting blog!!
In my opinion, I dont know, but for me to be healthy is the most important, so be healthy is appareance part too. Sometimes (not only the women) the people believe that the society wants, something that be slim, or in extremly, be sick for the anorexia, and the communicators massives supports this ideas,so we need to trust in ourselves, and believe that the best way for keep a good appareance is make exercise, sleep aroun eigth hours, and follow a good diet, without restrictios but withaout excess too. ok
well that was my opinion
bye
In our time the apparence is too important, anyway, it is more important for our healthy and if we take care our body we are going to avoid to be illness, however, when the apparence is more important tahat our healthy would be a big problem in our life.
I have seen some obsessive girls with their bodys furthermore this is a horrible situation wich we have to fix it.
They think that loose weight would bring hapiness for all their life, however, this is not true. The article that I have read have interesting ideas also some of them involve the real true of many teenagers wich have to be resolve as near as they can.
Information like this article is too important for young people.
In my point of view, this is an amazing article wich give us a great idea the problem that teenagers ara in contact.
That was exelent article.
See you saturday teacher!!!!!!
bye.
I agree with advertisements pro-age by Dove, because is something different that we can look normally in TV, publicity and magazines.
I think, we have the custom to look in publicity women with a pretty face an fitness.
Women need to have autoesteem and more responsability and respect with themselves and her body. And don´t agree with the marketing and the publicity.
Each woman has a big value by she is. There is not a perfect woman and with decide the definition of beauty, because all women have something very special.
We need to care ourselves and don´t think that we have to do all that TV show us.
Hello teacher:
Today in the morning I was listening to the radio and talked about an important issue and that this fashion right now is that "anorexia."
And I think that really the value of a person is internal rather than external, however the stereotype that manages to society today is that of a person aesthetics.
All this is due to marketing, magazines and walkways.
But really the important thing is the communication and trust that we have at home, talk about this with parents.
It´s really sad realize about how we can get into the therms of beuty that a businessman impose just for sel, sell sell. Beauty presents a standard of comparison, and it can cause resentment and dissatisfaction when not achieved. As a cultural creation, beauty has been extremely commercialized, what we can do about this? we can learn to don´t judge people just for how they look or dress. no more bad comments about sombody weight. let´s take a look inside our selfs and love that we really are, working on the soul and caring about our body just for health.
Hello Teacher,
I like the article so much, because I believe that is very important to know about our health.
I agree with the article try to say, it opens up your mind. We know that in our society exist this problem, maybe is one of the biggest problem, but nobody do something for give solutions for it, I think this problem is majior in the young people, all the magazines, all the news and all the television programs show us persons with a body really thin, What is the consequence???? The audience and readers try to be like the people that they see.
I think that beauty is not a concept, if you fell beautiful, you will be beautiful, because each person has something special, and it is not in the physical appereance, is inside us.
I think that this situatión is very worried because it's known that some girls have gotten different illness because they want to look thinner.
However, I think that the TV has enough influence because girls want to show themselves as the girls they see.
Even, when there is publicity about clothes or accesories, all of them are modeled by extra-small-size girls.
So in my opinión this situation has a big relation with what you see on different ways of comunication like TV, magazines, newspapers, etc.
To finish my comment I want to say all girls that we are beautiful just for the simple fact of been women.
Did you know that... The woman is wonderful creation the god. in the actuality more, today for today the woman play onepaper very important in the wold society. And the imagen is the first, prototype es the "Barbie woman" and yes one thin woman es more femenine, all this is certain the fashion is the slim woman, but the realy the Mexican woman is other because we are eat much "masita" and much fat. Is certain that the self-esteem go the hand with thinner, more thin more elevation the self-esteem, the most sad is that the girls have are fat acumulate, you imagine in adults. I think that all is important, the presence or appearence. However also the woman must have value humans and must has accept you appearence and she have accept age.
I think, that the word beauty has many differents meaning, but now the beauty becomes in a life style, mainly for the magazines, commercial announcements and T.V. programs.
I belive, we need must have confidence in ourselves:)
Remember Women, we are beautiful!!!
HI! JORGE
I THINK THAT IS MORE IMPORTANT TO HAVE A GOOD HEALTH AND NOT TO THINK JUST IN BEAUTY BECAUSE THE MARKETING HAS INFLUENCED SO MUCH IN THE SOCIETY TO FOLLOW THIS TO TYPE OF PROFILE AND IT HAS CAUSED A LOW SELF-ESTEEM IN MANY PEOPLE, CARRYING THEM TO ACQUIRE ILLNESSES AS THE ANOREXIA BY WANTED TO BE LIKE MODELS, ACTRESSES, ETC. BESIDES THE TECHNOLOGY HAS INFLUENCED A LOT IN THE IMAGE AND FORM GROUPS WHICH INDUCE YOU TO REACH THOSE STEREOTYPES THAT ARE CREATED BY THE COMPUTER BUT THE MOST THING IMPORTANT IS TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR HEALTH, TO MAKE EXERCISE WITHOUT INJURE YOURSELF OR DAMAGE YOUR LIFE.
THE LIFE IS MORE VALUABLE THAN SUFFERING FOR A PERFECT BODY.
Hi teacher...!
I think that the girls of today themselves do not feel to flavor with their fisico and that are left to carry for the impact of the marketing.
The government has to implement programs for support of the cases that already be ill and so that the girls become aware of what can happen.
They should be accepted for which they are.
Well, I think that these problems are because teenager girls have some identity problems, so when they are looking for an image that make them feel happy, they fall in ignorance and do stupid things,so they can't get out of this stereotype. Teenager almost never found the happyness because they can't see when it's enough and they can't stop to see a fat person, girls lose her mind and her eyes and lose their beauty and the security in their self.
An other problem is that all over the world is surround for advertising and that make the people get crazy, besides in our country exists a lot of problems with the poor, the violence and the insecurity, that's why some people create wrong ideas, almost all of them are about the models, because they think that they earn a lot just for get dressed specially clothes and besides people think they are happy just for be thin, but in fact they never think in sacrifice some time in activities to learn and grow up and just can see the easy way.
If we could change our modals our braveries, we could be happy and we could grow up, this country need an attitude change for be healthy, look like nice, get a better country and and of course a better world.
Itzel Domínguez Patiño dijo
Well, I think that these problems are because teenagers have some identity problems, so when they are looking for an their own image that could make them feel happy, they fall in ignorance and do stupid things and they can't get out of the stereotype that they have choused.
Teenager almost never can found the happiness because they can't see when it's enough and they can't stop to see a horrible person, girls lose her mind, her eyes, lose their beauty and the security, they don’t trust in them anymore.
Other problem is that all over the world is surrounded of advertising and that make the people get crazy, besides in our country exists a lot of problems with the poverty, the violence and the insecurity, that's why some people create wrong ideas, almost all of them are about the models, because they think that models earn a lot just for get dressed specially clothes and besides people think they are happy just for be thin, in fact they never think to sacrifice some time in activities for learn and grow up and just can see the easy way.
If we could change our modals our braveries, we could be happy and grow up, this country needs a change of attitude to get healthy people, to look like nice, get a better country and of course a better world.
This article, it´s helpful, beacuse many people don`t know realize of the this problem is destroying the lives of many women, unfortunately the principal culprit is the comunication, because little by little to fit in the mind women causing these effects.
Nowadays many people think “if you are fat your are horrible person” you are not fashion, unpleasant, and other thinks, but they don`t know the real problem, probably there is mesign information and there are
models and actresses that influencer their behavior.
often think that if loose weight It`s fantastic, I could use pretty dresses, I would be better but I could be sick.
Loose weight It`s important because could be healthy if there very problems of overweight, in Mexico there are many people with this problems so some organizations are working to resolve this problem.
Many people need more education for food and more the personal knowledge.
“Is preferable to be ugly and healthy that thin and sick”.
HELLO! WELL I THINK THAT THIS TOPIC IS VERY INTERESTING BECOUSE NOWADAYS PEOPLE THINK THAT IT`S BETTER TO HAVE A BEAUTIFUL FACE OR A PERFECT BODY BUT I THINK THAT IS BETTER TO HAVE A GOOD HEALTH, TO HAVE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH THE FAMILY AND BE HAPPY, THIS TOPIC IN SOME CASE OR DEPENDING OF THE PERSON IS INFLUENCED FOR MANY DIFERENTS FACTORS, MAYBE PUBLICI MARKETING OR ANOTHER PERSON THAT ONLY SAY THAT THEY THINK! BUT IT`S GOOD THAT THE WOMAN THINK THAT THEY ARE BEUTIFUL BECOUSE OLL OF THEM THER ARE BEAUTIFUL, THEY ARE THE PERSON THAT ENDURE ALOT OF THIGS SPECIALLY WHEN WE ARE BORN, SO I THINK THAT TNE WOMAN ARE BEUTIFUL.- BUT THE SOCIETY CHECH THE IDEA OF THE BEUTIFUL WOMANS AND THEY THINK THAT THE PERFECT WOMAN HAS A EXCELENT BODY
WELL THIS IS MY OPINION I ASPECT THAT OLL OF WOMANS THINK THAT THERE A RE BEAUTIL!
SEE YOU GOOD LOOK
It is true that nowadays the society play a role very importante in our life, that article speaks about of a rayal problem that it happening not only with womens but also with mans.
Is valid that in the announcements of publicity show beautifuls girls but the subliminals messages cause a big impact in the people.
The people think that for to be a person beautiful have to be like the models, I think that the girls that have autoesteem`s problems are persons obsessives for have a body and a face bautiful without know that they are puting in risk them lifs.
When the girls have this kind of thoughts, themselves are caused diseases like anorexia and bulimia and probably the death.
I think that while a women herself is loved and herself is respected will to know the royal meaning of to be beuty.
About of the foundation "Dove" I think that it does a work very important for help to girls with autoesteem`s problems.
This article is very interesting and tells us the truth about the society in which we live today.
The magazines now only show people who segun them are perfect and beautiful, making us believe that we have to be beautiful like them to see us .
But it is also true that the complexion of women depend on your country you are, so it is impossible to standardize the beauty in one kind of woman like that show us magazines.
The women we want and start working on what we are, and learn to love as we see in the mirror, but we do not feel bad or compare with what we see in the different modes of advertising, since it is more important to be healthy and feel good with our bodies, who see us as the anorexic models and have serious health problems, which may even lead to death.
**!!**Hi George!!**!!
This article is interesting, because is important to know more information about the self-esteem ourselves.
Unfortunately, the fuckin´ technology has been changing our opinion, that’s the reason why we´ve been turning more vulnerable when we´re acted.
At this rate the women ´s been the best participants in this tragedy,’ cause they think that if you want to be beautiful you must have a perfect appearance!! So they must to resort many ways to change all their imperfections, such as: strict diets, risky plastic surgeries, among other things, that sometimes they have to pay with their death.
Therefore, we have to be more able with the new invents and evil information that we’ve gotten, because the incorrect use of them, has changed us to be more shallow , forgetting our humble values and simples principles.
As far as I’m concerned that the funds like this case: Dove Self-Esteem Fund are a very important help to humanity, specially for the women.
This issue is important in a global society, currently the ads and advertisements about models and body perfect somehow develop low self-esteem in the teenage girls.
But why said what is a body perfect I belive is depend of each one, besides we can cause eating disorders and finally the most important is our healthy.
I think that the girls of today themselves do not feel to flavor with their fisico and that are left to carry for the ads and advertisements about models and body perfect somehow develop low self-esteem in the teenage girls.
But why said what is a body perfect I belive is depend of the most important is our healthy.
They should be accepted for which they are.
I think that is a good idea because the society it`s very very shallow so the girls are vere easy the convince for other person on them face or body.
Ibelieve to think more for the want the life was pretty easy and wonderful because we will have conscience. We believe more in the same outself
be aware of who we are and feel with our body, virtues and not even because of our own defects.
We must remember that we must live this because it really is all we have.
Hi teacher!!!!
I think in this society the meaning of beauty has changed, for be a beautiful women you have to be really thin.
The marketing in fact is one of the factors that have a big influence, because they sell a false image about the concept of beauty.
In the world are a lot of teenager who die every day because they are anorexic or bulimic girls, the percentage about this diseases is huge and continuous increasing.
The solution to this problem is to be a good comunication whit the family, im my opinion the parents should teach their children that they are important for his values and feelings.
HI TEACHER.
In my point of view about the text entitled “did you know that” is very current and is important reflect about the damage that are causing all the advertisements around the world, showing actresses, actors, models with bodies increasingly thin, the worst case is that the population most affected are the women, girls and teenagers, they believe that beauty is have a perfect body externally of this way they begin to have eating disorders affecting all their system this can cause death when done for a long time. I think that a perfect body is that in balance without excess and it lets you feel good inside. If you want lose weight is advisable do exercise and lead a balanced diet including all food groups, consult a nutritionists for help us and the most important be patient because all process takes time.
Is important that the companies develop programs to help the population and disseminate on the Internet because it is the most consulted for the search of information and is easy be contact with other parts of the world, for example I think the project of the company Dove is very good, is a good manner of inspire to change definition of true beauty.
Hi teacher my opinion is about the "I am not in" But now is not there.
I’m worry about the topic because it’s sad to know that the unpunctuality of Mexican it’s know for many countries. The worst is that the Mexican people don’t do anything about to change it.
The punctuality is an excellent virtue for the people because it say that you are a person who have respect for the time of everybody.
But in Mexico the things are different because the punctuality says how much interest you have for different situations in your life. If you don’t have enough interest on the situation, you won’t be on time.
In the business the punctuality is very important because you would waste a costumer if you don’t arrive on time for the meeting.
I think that we have to put attention on this aspect because if we don’t change our bad habits, we won’t have all of we want. Also I think that this problem start from the people were a child because if their parents are an unpunctual people they will be an unpunctual person because their parents teach them this bad habit. In this case is more difficult to change the habit but never impossible. Finally I want to say that we have the capacity to change all of we want, it’s difficult but if we want it we can do it.
In my opinion the fault of all these effects cause overcoat in the feminine population of the world is of the whole advertising that we watch in the course of the day. Definitively a culture is absent quite to achieve that the persons raise you're the self-esteem, and nowadays the problems of nourishing disorders are not exclusive of the women, but at the moment the men, though in a minor percentage already also they suffer from this type of eating disorder. Although when you are thin also has its disadvantages, because the people who doesn't know you think that you have some eating disorder when you just physically are thin. In addition, I think that the communication between parents and children is important in order that this type of things do not happen. I guess that the parents must know if their children are well or badly in spite of only observing their behavior and nourishing habits. Another important aspect is the influence of the "friends" and the opinions that they have about you physical aspect, due to the fact that if to want it they can damage enormously your auto-esteem. I think that the goal of this campaign must be of great impact for the market to which Dove wants to go, due to the fact that there has been created a stereotype of "beauty" that will be very difficult to eradicate.
I think that this I articulate this very in the certain thing since the women do not we know to appreciate our real beauty and we believe that to be beautiful thin meaning to be slim and this is thanks to all the publicity that have given us, I believe that the women should to have a better concept to be woman and that a woman is not that that he leaves in the luxurious magazines shaping things if not that that loves he lives rie and fight each I gave
The beauty is important to almost everyone nowadays. Acoording to some studies it seems that this staitment is totally truth. The good looking´people is often in higher positions at work, earn more money that the less lucky people.
And think of that everybody will work better with a good looking boss don´t you?
We are visuals people and I´m not says that a person is more that an other because of his beauty personality is important as well if you are lack of it you have nothing this is not the main isssue here.
The main issue is that this is reality you like it or not believe it or not here and in China.
Dove´s campain tries to touch the real people as their slogan says the sad thing is that while the third part of the humanity is starving the other half is on diet. And being thin is equal to be healthy in theory without talking of alimentation disorders.
One of my friend ones in the beach said "it´s not that fat people are gone is that they are not ashame anymore" when he saw a fat woman wearing a bikini.
The look isn´t important after all that´s what I think went I saw a couple kissing or holding hands in the street or in the mall and their aren´t perfect , good looking, thin, rich, or atractive at all, but who is anyway....
Hi George!
Well i have read this article..
it is really interesting because it´s true..
the most of the women think so much about their physical appearance..
well.. we´re women.. but there are some of them who really exaggerate..
like an obsession.. or maybe because they have a kind of trauma.. could be..
In the other hand.. women want to lose weight for getting good health..
but models that think they are losing weight for a nice look they´re damaging their body and their minds..
The obsession with losing weight is an illness, but women do not recognize it...
And something that i considere is 100% truth is that when women read magazines and see all that beautiful models their selfesteem is so low..
and they only say: "ohh why i´m not like her?".. "why i´m not thin?" but in too much cases that pictures are a photoshop product! and we also dont think about the suffering of that models that do not eat in a correct way.. whatever..
this article was really good..
bye!
Esther..!
upper int. 1
Nowadays most of the woman in the world are exposed to everykind of ads from T.V., magazines and even on the streets, where they show that to be beauty is the same to be thinner and thinner and teenagers try to look like supermodels or her favorite actress or singer, I thing this kind of mind is completly misunderstanding because most of famous people have an unhealhty life and they will have serious prblems with their health.
Talking about health it´s important to say that a fat body isn´t halthier than a thin, this is not a fight, the only thing that had to be the main is the fact of we have to take care of our selfs, how?, is so easy, try to do some exercise, a good diet and we have to visit our doctor twice a year, with this we have to get ready for illness.
I thing that you and me are responsables of our body, our mind, our life; we have to take and have to learn about good things that the TV, magazines, ads give us in order to become a better person.
Noboby has the body or the face that everybody wants, but if you stare carefully to other countries to other communities even if look our neihgtboors, we are millionaries, why?, because we can eat everyday, we have a lovely and a warmy house, we can walk, we can talk, we can hear, we have all that we need to be happy.
well, I think that, I am one of those women who are not happy with I myself, the problem is, according to I, who, to the woman always have been demanded to be " beautiful" intelligent, cultured, independent, mother, maid, profesionista and more, and this causes that we feel incapable to be all that, then is when the woman undergoes the being woman, when she would have of dsifrutar it! I think that, we can change that form to think, when we begin to love us, and to take care of, thus we will enjoy and show us as we felt.
I don’t completely agree, every time when I hear that somebody blames the television or any other media of a problem like this, I think “that person don´t know how to entertain himself or herself”.
I’m not saying that this article is false because there are several stupid people who don´t recognize the real world to the exaggerations which are showed by the media, but are more people who are afraid of to be criticized for his decisions, people who have been hurt by somebody who they trusted an loved (like a relative or a friend) and they haven´t talked about their problems again, situations like these are triggers of addictions and nutritious disorders too, but no one talks about them.
In my opinion, we must not blame the media, if we had a good relationship and communication with our family and friends lots of problems like this would not exist.
Since in the particular thing I do not consume alcohol, but I believe that this not resolve the problem of root, since though one stops selling alcoholic drinks always there is way of they being obtained By The patrons of the caverns and similar places always they devise them to joke of the authority.
Principally I believe that the solution is each one is aware of us as young and of evaluating all risks that we have on having consumed drinks alcoholics and to handle in this condition, since definitively the consequences can be fatal, so much for those who consume them like for those who surround us.
We all have right plenary session of amusing yourself, but if you do it do it well and we must remember a thing freedom is not synonymous of libertinism
Well, I consider I’m like one of these girls in some cases, for example when it says: “Most women agree that there is more pressure today to “look a certain way””. It’s hard to believe it but is real and cruel.
There are many women who are under the pressure just caring about their weight, they thing they are doing a good diet but in this point when many eating disorders appears like bulimia and anorexia diseases that are becoming common day with day.
we need to learn how to love ourselves because we don’t do it we are everyday more worried about our family or friends, in the case our sons, our husband and all that kind of things the woman suppose to do because even when we are in twenty one century there are many chauvinistic men (hombres machistas) who tell her wife: “Don’t do that, you’re ugly, you’re stupid, you’re… bla bla bla”, and that makes feel her badly and then they look fashion magazines and see all this beautiful girls and that’s why the women’self-esteem begins to lower.
Women love us not mattering what others says!!!!
I listened a song once and it says, Words can't bring me down, I am beautiful in every single way, NO MATTER WHAT THEY SAY ;)
Hi, teacher Jorge...
How are you, i really hope that fine!
I think that this subject is really interesant, because every day the people are more concerned about their appearance, making at slide what is really important, such as the family, the health, the love and other aspects of life.
every day we are more.
I am not sayint that not is important care your look, but I think many people are obsessed whit it.
Also I consider that this situation as much to do with sales, marketing and publicity, which increasingly contribute that our self-esteem is weakened.
Since the second world war in United States began the consumerism because while europe was in ruins, the United States began to produce and sell and it was this era that began in the culture of consumerism.
However today many foundations are not just dove are concerned about these situations, for example in the case of Italy one of the nations recognized worldwide for fashion, making this action and believes that the wrong logo for the model that many skinny adolecesntes copied today, and concluded that their models were within the half complexion.
but today the problem about the alimentation not only es for the girls don,t eat, other problem in the actual sociality es that the persons haven,t good food abits. In the case of Mexico represent the 2nd in obesity before to United States, a worried situation because in other 10 year our society can be the 1st.
Is for thise reason that the goberment with the IMSS organized th campaign against this problem. And other companys as Coca Cola, Jumex, and other with aliments wares, in the commercials pur the comentay, 'you should do exercise' or 'your should eat fruir and vegetables'.
well teacher, I think that its all.
I hope that you has a good weekend.
'Our true nationality is mankind'.
H.G. Wells
***Hello beautiful teacher***
What it means to be beautiful? This is the effect of living in a global society, everyone things that be thin means to be healthy, I don`t think so! Nowadays Girls are influenced by publicity on TV.,fashion magazines, but why? Do men think that girls are more interesting if they are slim? I have seven brother and i was asking them about it, and guess what? Most of them said `most of the thin girls don´t have the figure, the bosom that other girls have".
And why don`t they consider themselves beautiful? Every girl has something beautiful, it can be our face, body, legs , hair, personality etc.
I can tell you that I met a girl who doesn`t take care about herself because she doesn't do exercise, she is always eating fatty food. We can think that she doesn´t love herself, she is not beautiful and be fat doens`t help her. This kind of people use to have so many problems because the insecurity they have.
Well, to conclude I want to say that all of us are beautiful it doesn`t matter how we look
HI TEACHER:
About this article ,I think that is important that we can accept us, because nobody is perfect. I belive that is essential love ourselves if we want to somebody can love us, but in these days the most important in our society is a beautiful face and a perfect body.The main reason is because the trends in this fashion world show us in many magazines and TV programmes, beautiful models and actresses very thin and we would like to be as them. And many teenagers are obsessed in lose weight and They don´t think the consequenses of their health. And in many times they will do all the necessary for lose weight. This is the main cause about eating disorders as bulimia and anorexia, that in many cases cause the death.
In conclusion I believe that all are beautiful, but the most import are the feelings
Well
I think The health is the best important because you can not live whit out it.
Every one is important that´s why we must be carefully with ourselves.
Remember nothing is more important and indispensable.
Hi!!,
I liked this article, because we live in a global world in wich we have to follow or copy everything that appears on the adds or everything that tv shows.
Women today are more complicated than before; it is an internal constant fight the fact that we have to be perfect on the outside and the inside, and I think we are more concerne about looking good on the outside, and it shouldn't be like that; I believe a person has value for what she/he thinks or what are her/his feelings, not the other way around.
Even for me it's so complicated to try not to feel bad every time I look a magazine and I realise I'm not the prototype of that kind of girls (talking about the way they look on the outside of course), but then I think again and I see I have something they don't: I have a life and I don't have to worry about gaining some weight and not to fit in those dresses anymore.
To sum up, I believe that if we start to value ourselves we won't have to worry of what might people think of us in a future.
In my opinion,
Does not absolute truth exist on the beauty, who said that to be thin is to be beautiful, or that to be a blonde is to be more attractive? In my opinion, a beautiful woman is which loveds and looks after herself, which knows herself and she gives the better thing that has, that exploits her talents and that is capable of loving and to be loved,
That can smile though the time is not very favorable for her because she is sure of to give the better thing of herself.
This is a reality, the women always have been very conceited, the woman takes care of her body and it is very important but a woman who this spent from weight must come to the prompt doctor because a disease is created, nevertheless I think that she is healthy to take a balanced diet and algun type of exercise they say that also if you have a hobby also you burn calories with any activity.
Years ago I remember the photos of my family and the majority of the women were less rather fat even hada small waist and good figure, nowadays the girls was in ends and I believe that it is not healthy or was thinly or very flat.
Hi George!
Actually I think, that nowdays anorexic and bulimic girls are such a big problem, because we think that we are not pretty because we dont look like the girls in the cover of the fashion magazines, its an influence from tv , internet, that make the thoughts in young girls that if you are more skinny you are more happy; that´s not because, how many girls die for been anorexic; models are another roll that affect the world that we live ,because fashion change a lot in the last years, I remember that models were more with a real boby not like a young girl that it´s 1.78 and her heigth it´s around 60 kg that´s very shocking and anyone do anything for stop this problem, and I think tha you have to look inside you and see all good things that good give you that you can walk or see or touch because outside there are people that cant do that. So when that things happen people wolud realize how beautiful they are.