After reading the article, “Myth Buster: The Truth About Eating Disorders” in Corsair.

Many girls in this world care about their body shapes and want to be slim. Actually, I want to be skinnier too. Also, after reading this article, I realized that I have eating disorder. I used to be really fat so I couldn’t even fit any girl’s pants two years ago. It was very stressful and I always felt shameful of my body. Therefore, I decided to lose weights and lost 40 pounds so far. Now, I can wear what I want to wear and no one calls me I am fat. However, I feel like I am still fat and need to lose weight. Also, because of the stress and pressure which is that I can’t eat high calories foods that I want to eat, sometimes I eat way too much. I thought this kind of stress would not go away since I was born as a girl, but the article says it is one of symptoms of eating disorders and can be recovered. I thought why many girls so care about their weights. I think it is because they want to be good looking rather than to be healthy. The societies who are living now are influenced a lot by lots of visual media such as TV shows, movies, magazines and ads on the street. And, the media affect people to seek visual beauties more than before. Many people do plastic surgeries and go to gym everyday to get better looking. So, I think eating disorders and caring about their weight too much are also one of the victims that are caused by media.     

Nowadays in Korea many guys start to put make up on their faces. And there are already many make up stores for men on the streets. Men can buy make up products easily and also can try them on their faces too at the stores. When the first male make up products came out, people thought they were not necessary from men and it looked like for gay people, so it seemed nobody liked to wear them. However, since some popular Korean male stars were on TV commercial for the make up products, the number of male make up buyers have been increasing. Now, many men in Korea don’t think wearing make up is not shameful and they consider it as investment for their appearances. I’m surprised that media are very influential so they can change people’s thought easily and fast.   

I watch “Gossip girl”, which is a TV show on CWTV. It the drama shows about some high school students in New York. The characters in the TV show are very rich and live different life from normal middle class people’s lives. Their parents are really influential in the world such as CEOs. famous fashion designers. They always have fancy parties and wear very expensive outfits. I really like this TV show and have never missed any episode so far. However, I started to wonder about what are the reason I like this TV show so much and how the TV show became so popular. I think the life in the TV show which displays luxurious lives like shopping everyday, wearing nice clothes and having party everyday satisfies people’s desire which they dream to have. People could know the lives displayed in the TV shows are not sometimes realistic to them, but it attracts them to watch and make them feel like they are living the same life with the life in the show during watching it. The rich people in the show might seem all smart to go to the IVY school even though they don’t study a lot. Their lives look just happy and they can do whatever they want. However, It could not be true in the real rich people’s lives. I think people should watch it with knowing and realizing that it could be different from the real life. Also, they should discern the differences between the real life and the life in TV show not to have misconception about the real life.

Non-fat frozen yogurt

I went to Westwood street near UCLA. There are lots of restaurants and cafes for many people to have a meal and study. And one of the most popular places where people go many times is a frozen yogurt place. There are about 7 frozen yogurt places around UCLA. These day, I enjoyed froze yogurt a lot, but the weird thing is that I used to really hate it when I was in Korea. I think it is because I started to care about my weights and body shape since I came to California. In United States, I can see many diet products and diet program easily such as in grocery markets, ads on the street and TV. Many people, especially women in California want to be skinny and have good shape of body. I think this kind of cares which people around me have makes me on diet and keep thinking about my diet. Actually, regular ice creams which are usually not non-fat taste better for me. They are creamier and much sweeter and also have various favors too. However, every time before ordering Ice cream, I count the calories and eventually decide to have a frozen yogurt. Even though I eat what I want to have, if it is high calories, I feel so guilty. I think the pressure that makes people think and care about their body shape from mass media are too much. Diet programs and diet foods are everywhere and also even most people in TV or magazines have the perfect body shape that the mass media keep saying. I think also many people care too much about their diet and feel the pressure like me.