Health and beauty listings

Health and beauty listings

With the introduction of exercise videos, health channels, live plastic surgery and you are what you eat shows it has becoming increasingly alarming that our bodies are being scrutinized and moulded into what is seen as the ‘norm’. Who decides what the ‘norm’ is? Who decides what the perfect body is and how we should look? Television, celebrities and society are to blame. Young men and young women are at risk of being told how to look. Everybody is different and should not be compared to someone else. A healthy diet, regular exercise and multivitamins should be a way of keeping healthy and transforming your body, not plastic surgery or diet pills. Everywhere you look you are being criticised about how you look on billboards, magazines, TV, Radio, posters, the internet, magazines, supermarkets and gyms. We are put under a huge amount of pressure to conform to the way models look and to follow the ‘norm’, but why not stand out from the rest and be an individual by believing in your self and using natural and healthy means to improve your body.  

In today’s society we have moved on from the old days where we were not bothered about health and beauty. But through most manual labour men and women worked and lived in grimy and dirty environments. Now though the market is absolutely saturated with huge selections of health and beauty products of all kinds. Everywhere you look you see advertisements about different products that can improve your health or make you look more beautiful or younger. This in my opinion is wrong, not in bad way we all like to look good and have good health, but with most young girls who are vulnerable to these types of products are becoming more and more conscience about the way they look and feel. This is making girls younger and younger starting to become obsessed with their bodies and looks having a detrimental effect on their social well being.