Nowadays young people pay too much attention to body images. For example, most of my classmates often talk about how thin they are and how to lose weight.
According to reports, the number one wish for girls aged from 11 to 17 is to be thinner. Even girls as young as five are afraid of becoming fat. What made girls pay much attention to their body images? The media(媒体)! Beauty is stressed on television, in movies, and in magazines. One in three articles in magazines pay attention to body images, and 50 of the magazines show pictures of thin, beautiful models.
Reports about adult women are just as terrible. Every day, about 50% of American women are on a diet(节食). 34% of women say they'd think about cosmetic surgery(整容手术) to make them become thinner.
If the media would stop encouraging Americans to have a perfect image, girls and boys could be much happier. There would be no more crying about not fitting into a pair of size zero jeans. People could pay more attention to being healthy and happy.