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This body insecurity, besides creating other issues, contributes to the obesity epidemic. Girls and boys who are perfectly healthy weights see these super-thin
by armchairhacker 5y ago
This body insecurity, besides creating other issues, contributes to the obesity epidemic. Girls and boys who are perfectly healthy weights see these super-thin celebrities and starvation diets, causing them to starve themselves and feel insecure, causing them to binge and develop screwed-up hunger signals.
It goes the other way too: since most people are fat losing weight is seen as a good thing, and people are constantly on a "diet" which they constantly complain about.
It's not just Instagram, it's not even just celebrities, it's a lot of society. A "healthy" human body is neither super skinny not super fat, and a "healthy" human body is actually usually attractive. But a lot of people don't realize.
- randycupertino 5y agoThe amount of filters and video filters out there is crazy in how much they change bodies and the perception of what is an ideal body. The Chinese Olympic swimmer was a recent notable one: https://www.reddit.com/r/Instagramreality/comments/q27w3w/a_chinese_olympic_swimmer_with_and_without/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Instagramreality/comments/q27w3w/a_... Here's a recent video filter: https://www.reddit.com/r/Instagramreality/comments/q44txx/dont_know_if_repost/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Instagramreality/comments/q44txx/do... Especially with the popular influencers doing this and when you see most of the comments impressed with how the "exercise" is helping vs how it's really a filter. https://www.reddit.com/r/Instagramreality/comments/pwvs83/really_sad_to_see_this_fitness_influencer_posted/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Instagramreality/comments/pwvs83/re...