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 * Society and Media Pressures **

Society puts a lot of pressure on people these days to be thin and to have a certain body image. You are deemed unhealthy if you are over weight and people take it to the extreme by becoming to thin. It starts in our elementary schools where if you are a certain body type you are bullied and made fun of. The stress on youth to stay thin because they will be bullied and wear down on a person and they will turn to diet pills or laxatives to help them lose weight faster. Also the stress and constant bullied can be damaging to a youths self-esteem and in a lot of cases will turn to drugs like alcohol, weed, and cigarettes and in fewer cases cocaine and heroin to cope with the stress of not being good enough. They are also used to suppress hungry to aid in the diet pills or laxatives so people lose weight more rapidly.

Media bombards people today with ads of diet pills and dieting plans. There are images all around us, in magazines, movies, television, and the internet that tell us of a certain standard to have our body. People will go on all kinds of different diets and will lose weight to rapidly and can cause damage to themselves. Millions of dollars a year are spent on ads to make people lose weight, and people spend billions of dollars on the next new diet or next best pill to take. People will overuse these diet pills or laxatives and damage their bodies.