Nowadays Thai adolescents and young
adults put high recognition on body image and unsatisfied
with their weight even if not
really fat. Also they were not aware of BMI (Body Mass Index). These may be the result of underlying values thinness
comes with ads. That
is the value of a person reflected in the media more
focused on the shape and good looks outside than healthy inside. Thus resulting in the
social perspective and attitude
that obesity is
undesirable. So, most of Thai teenager like
to lose their weight only for thinness and the confidence to live in society.
Each
Thai teenager has difference weight loss behavior depended on their individual
factor, for example, taking diet pill, dietary supplements, diet and so on. These methods can result to disorder body
system, discontinuity growth or even mortality. There are several ways to diet, but the most
popular and expensive is taking diet pill. Obviously seen from face book or
other social media, there are diet pill posted
for sale, and selling very
well. In addition to expensive, taking diet pill may cause to palpitations, insomnia, and may lead to
heart attack. The next is taking dietary
supplement, it is a nutrient to help in the excretion, fat trap such as
Fiber or Chitosan etc. However, taking
dietary supplement is better than diet pill, but should
be choosing carefully because some dietary supplements
brand may contain contamination illegally prohibited which acting like diet pill. The last one is diet, it is very easy and cheap but dangerous
with your body because if you get nutrients and energy not
enough on demand, it can cause dizziness, feeble or even discontinuity
growth.
There
are many factor related to weight loss in Thai teenagers, the first is attitude
to fat. They has attitude to losing weight for
good personality.
Skinny people will have a
better personality than people who
are obese and can be dressed up fashionably.
The next up is social media and advertising. Current media advertising on dietary supplements and diet pills by using good shape celebrities
as presenters is common. This is one factor that
motivates teenagers to have a good shape like
them even if somebody already has a good slender shape. However, for the
right way to lose weight are
exercise and eat less (Not diet). It is a better approach and healthy,
but need to spend time and quite tired. So, it is
not quite popular.
To
sum up, Thai adolescents and young adults put high recognition on body image and unsatisfied with their weight.
Resulted in wrong lose weight behavior which are taking diet pills, dietary supplement
and diet and so on without thinking over its impact on the body. However, such behavior may come from several environmental
factors such as social attitudes, social value or social media advertising etc. Parents or people closer should be advised and encouraged them about the correct way to be a good shape
such as exercise, which help created weight
loss behavioral and have confident in today's society.
Reference : Nursing Journal Volume 39 Number 4 October - Demenber 2012
(accessed February 20 ,2014)
Miss Arunya Maneened Id: 523080367-6
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