Discussion; The influence of social media on body weight
Maintaining a healthy body composition and weight can be complicated, as you’ve learned this week. Not only are there genetic factors that influence our body weight, shape, and composition, but there are external factors as well. One of the biggest factors these days is the media, particularly social media. Social media has helped normalize dozens of unhealthy body weight-related fads, beliefs, and behaviors.
For your post: Go online, preferably on social media, and find an example of something that is promoting, encouraging, or normalizing an unhealthy or unrealistic body composition or weight. Share the example in your discussion post (take a photo, screenshot it, provide the link, etc.). Be sure to tell us where it came from.
Next, discuss the example you’ve provided. Why is it problematic? What is unhealthy or abnormal about it? Are there biological factors it is ignoring or misrepresenting? If so, what are they? What about environmental or other external factors? Anything else that makes this example unrealistic or problematic?
One question at end of your discussion.
Be detailed and thorough with your answers. Be sure to get your information from reputable sources (remember the CRAAP criteria from week 1). Cite any sources you use.
