Everything in Moderation.

It was hard to hear my friend, makeup smudged by her tears and her once confident self image shattered by two hurtful words, one included ‘fat.’ I am an avid yahoo article reader and today an article came to my attention ‘5 signs you have bad-fitting jeans.’ What happened to loving the way you are? I agree in this day and age we have aimed campaigns at raising awareness for obesity, but is society taking our gullible, weak self images to the extreme? Some of the effects of unrealistic fashion features and ‘it’ models raise the ugly head of insecurity. It is horrendous when we see obese teenagers, but when it comes to women or girls in particular, society is excessively scornful. I am afraid that contemporary culture will raise an army of excessive human beings. What happened to moderation? Like the great Greek philosopher Aristotle who stated that our mission in life is to find a perfect balance between extremity and moderation, and that to find a perfect balance we must enjoy our cake and eat it too. That doesn’t mean that you don’t eat the cake, nor does it mean you take a second slice. It means what it means. A study in Canada showed that more than 27% of the teenage girl population had eating disorders, is that not a startling figure? The simple reason why people indulge in such extremities – skinny and obese is because the media sends contradictory images to our generation. First we are told that we must love your curves, but when our role models are found leaving the plastic surgeons clinic and the models that wear the clothes we are supposed to buy are wearing a size zero, what are we meant to think? Girls, it’s not about what you look like, its about enjoying life, accepting the ideology of moderation, and making sure that if you are hungry you eat, and when you are full, you stop. Discipline, moderation and confidence are key