This isn't something that might make you all happy, but I read that 50% of 10 year olds in America are on diets at any given time.
50%! :shock: What would a 10 year old need a diet for is anyone's guess - at such a young age, they shouldn't be excessively obese or thin anyway.
Statistics:
Anorexia nervosa
Research suggests that about one percent (1%) of female adolescents have anorexia. That means that about one out of every one hundred young women between ten and twenty are starving themselves, sometimes to death. There do not seem to be reliable figures for younger children and older adults, but such cases, while they do occur, are not common.
Bulimia nervosa
Research suggests that about four percent (4%), or four out of one hundred, college-aged women have bulimia. About 50% of people who have been anorexic develop bulimia or bulimic patterns. Because people with bulimia are secretive, it is difficult to know how many older people are affected. Bulimia is rare in children.
http://www.anred.com/stats.html
^ I don't know about you guys, but looking at that really disturbs me. 1 in every 100 women starve themselves to look good?
I know for a fact that all this talk, and even showing them the ads wouldn't move some people. You've got to find it within yourself, you need that acceptance. Because all it takes is a single accident and you can lose all your physical beauty. Now, if you don't have self-acceptance, you will have a difficult time adjusting to your new way of life, if you should Heaven-forbid be involved in an accident and lose some body parts or disfigure your face, lose some teeth, shed hair...etc. What you carry with you is your acceptance of yourself. No one can teach you how to love yourself, one can only love you and hope that it shines some light on your true beauty.
At the end of the day, the one person you cannot avoid is the only person you need to please. Yourself.
