Feb 09 2009
Weight issues among teenagers.
The movie where Kareena Kapoor showed off her size zero figure had become more popular due to her statistics then the movie’s quality and finally it bombed at the box office! But it did its part in influencing people around about what’s the perfect figure is. A sneak peek into any of the prominent schools in the major cities will give you a picture where most of the girl are either seriously overweight or underweight and the boys have started taking regular protein supplements to get their much admired six packs! Wanting to have a marvellous body is obviously not a problem but the fact that most adolescent children take help of severe dieting to reduce weight or adopt artificial method to gain muscles is what causes the worry.
Regular exercises, sports activities, walking or even cycling has educed to almost null due to present sedentary lifestyle of the students where they are either sitting in a classroom in school, coaching or music classes in the evening and then spending the rest of the hours in front of the computer or television. Sedentary lifestyle have made overweight a serious issue and some adopt dangerous measures to cut down those flab and get their dream figure. I think sport activities should be given more priority and that will help the teenagers from worrying too much about their weight and still being healthy and fit.
Keeping track of what children eat is becoming more and more necessary given the increasing number of cardiac issues or nutritional deficiencies n children who either overeat or don’t eat at all…
It’s more of a psychological issue too. If you stay around people who are slim and trim, then you would want to be like them too.
But, if you stay with people who are on the fatter side, then you wouldn’t care as you think it’s okay.
@ dratiffarid
Its is surely more of a psychological issue as you said an the celebrities affects young minds tremendously.
That’s true - Kareena created much complex among the teenagers with her ’size zero figure’ . If only she’d work that hard after her movies, we would be getting some good stuff to watch than the pathetic ones!!!
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Peer pressure can be overwhelming on teens. The lack of focus on health is concerning.
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You’re right, arthi. People do need to monitor what kids eat. There are so many celebrities who are striving to be as thin as possible and children follow suit and do the same thing.
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I think all us girls especially have been thru this. The media really does make us feel inscure about the way we look and sometimes that can be really damaginig esp to our self-confidence.