Catching an Eating Disorder

I know what you’re thinking, “There’s no way to catch an eating disorder.” But the truth is that if you hangout with someone who has an eating disorder they can give it to you. If they don’t eat certain foods it will make you feel bad about eating it in front of them, if they only eat a certain amount of calories you could start too. You may still think it can’t happen to you but here’s how your judgment could be clouded: the thought of being judged. Not wanting to be thought badly of by your peers can lead to being just like them. Just remember: being yourself is all that matters and if someone doesn’t like it, well then it’s their fault for not seeing your beauty.

Peer Pressure

As a lot of you know the crime rate in the country is has been going up, but here’s something you may not know: the juvenile crime rate in the country has been going up dramatically. There are many reasons for this but there is one major one that I’m going to talk about: Peer Pressure.
Peer Pressure is when you don’t want to do something but others will make you, either by words or by force. Peer pressure with words is when people threaten to make up stories about you or tell your whole school you’re a chicken. Peer pressure by force is when they hit or shove you and threaten to do worse.
A lot people who suffer peer pressure will do what they’re told because they don’t want the stories to come out or don’t want to get hurt. But the truth is there is a way out, telling an adult even a teacher could get it stopped. If that doesn’t work, going to the police is the smartest thing to do. Another tip is to travel in numbers, they less likely to beat you up if you are with people. Remember, even though more kids are getting into trouble, you don’t have to be forced into it.

Dating Older Guys

I know that a lot of girls think it’s cool to date guys who are older than them, but there are always limits; I’m going to tell you what those limits are. Here’s limit number one: If he is talking about commitment when you’re not even in collage yet, he’s too old. Number two: If he is so much older than you that you sneak out to be together, he’s still too old. Number three is probably the most important: If he feels ready to have sex, he is defiantly too old.
I know that lots of girls think they can handle dating older guys but the truth is that many of them aren’t. They want to feel more mature but they can be downgraded by an older guy’s expectation. Another thing is that a lot of older guys will just use young girls for sex and for a sense of control. Here are places a guy will look to manipulate you: Work, Coffee Shops, and at stores. If you work with an older guy who says he likes you and to prove it he stalks you here’s what you do: tell your parents and your boss. If it’s any other situation you should still always tell your parents, they’ll help you more than anyone else. Remember, a year or two age difference is all that major unless he is in collage and your in high school, but never date anybody who could be mistaken for your father, because that’s just weird.

Girl's Dreams

A lot of girls look into a mirror and tell themselves that they will never reach their goal, and I’m here to say that all goals and dreams can be reached if you try. Many female celebrities are born famous, but many others had to try unbelievably hard to achieve their dreams. Take Cleopatra for instance, a young women who had to fight her own brother to win back her country.
Many of female winners of American Idol had to may have a popular parent but they had to bear the harsh judge’s comments. Jordin Sparks has a famous football player for a father but had to put up with a judge not liking how curvy she is. Plus, all the girls who auditioned for that show had to sing on national television, I don’t know about you but I think that would really hard.
Many women in the military had to get past the hard training, the sexist men, and leaving their families. I think women like Cleopatra and Jordin show us that in the past and present, women have been strong and have always followed their dreams.

Girl's Education

I’m reading a book called Three Cups of Tea, written by David Oliver Relin and Greg Mortenson and it is about Greg Mortenson. Greg built schools across the most remote regions of Pakistan and his schools let girls get an education. In the book he shows that in the Middle East lots of people think women should not be educated even though it says that they should in the Koran. While on a plane Greg sees a group of teenage Islamic girls dressed in their best clothes being herded around by men, those girls where sold to men to be prostitutes. Uneducated girls that were very beautiful were sold from their families and taken across the Middle East to have sex for money and then give the money to their masters. If the girls tried to run away, keep some of the money, or refused to have sex their punishments were either to be beaten or killed, even though lots of the girls died from severe beatings. Lots of these girls will or now have sexually transmitted diseases or have died from the man beating them during the sex. I think that all American girls who have or are getting their education should be thankful for their education and be sorry for the girls who where victims of this because they have no education.

Tobacco

Here is a horrible method of weight loss, what is it? It’s tobacco. Tobacco is a drug known far and wide, you’re probably asking yourself why girls would use tobacco and the answer can be plain and simple, weight loss. There is an ingredient in tobacco (that I do not know the name of) that can make you lose weight but there can be some deadly costs.
Those costs are, your appearance will be altered with things like hair loss, yellow fingernails, and wrinkly skin and your lungs will be filled with tar which makes almost impossible to breath, cancer, or emphysema, even death. If any of things happen to you, you’ll have pretty much have no chance of changing them back. Tobacco increases your chance of cancer in many places such as breasts, lungs, mouth, tongue, and in the bones. Cancer has no cure yet so if you get it you have to start treatment to slow the process if you can go 5 years without cancer cells showing up in your bloodstream you are considered cancer free. So the next you are in the grocery store or in a gas station and you walk by the cigarettes or chew remember that tobacco is a killer and you want to live to see 2009!

Crash Dieting

Do you know what always used to be talked about until pregnant stars stole the spotlight? Crash dieting. Crash dieting is driving teenage to starve themselves to lose weight.
Sometimes young girls think that a diet where you eat nothing, or very little, is fine because they just want the bodies some celebrities have. Then they end up in the hospital getting food from a tube, and they wonder why they lost so much weight and still look nothing like the pictures of stars. Here is the reason why; it’s called airbrushing.
Airbrushing is the tampering of people’s pictures so that a person looks taller and skinnier than they really are. The media is responsible for this and sometimes I wonder if the people who work for big-time magazines that airbrush the pictures realize the could be responsible for the next teenage girl that ends up in the ER. So next time you look at a magazine and see a picture of a beautiful celeb on the cover and you start to wish that you looked exactly like her, remember that we are all different and that you are beautiful just the way you are.