Obesity

Many people are now worried about the appearance of being a "healthy" person, we hear the terms of anorexia and bulimia, we fear about being too skinny and not having a good diet, but we sometimes don't think about the opposite; have we ever thought about obesity? What this problem is and how it affects us?

If you didn't know it, Mexico ranks among the "fattest countries", the ones with more people with overweight or obesity. Haven't you noticed it yet?

If one day you go out, try to count how many "fat" people you see on the street, I think most of them will have at least a big belly. But, should we alarm ourselves about that?

I believe we should. Obesity, nowadays, is an alarming problem. Why? Because it directly affects our lives; we have a higher risk of physic and mental diseases and even we get to modifiy our genetic code.

So, what should we do to eradicate this problem? I don't think the problem itself comes from the fast-food restaurants or the fact that we have a life where devices do assignments for us, but it comes from the fact that we have a sedentary life and we don't do anything to change that.

Not because we go to a "Mcdonald's" we will gain ourselves a belly, but we have to reflect about our actions: we have to eat healthy, we have to do exercise, we have to occupy ourselves in something else than just being sitting down or lying on bed.

We also see another problem like the one of culture. As there's a culture for food, there's obviously a pattern of what people from a specific place look like. We have to prioritize our needs: what we need to eat, and how much activity we have to do. That's it. No more problems, we have to start a culture of a healthy lifestyle or our children will be like us. If we don't start to change our lifestyle, no one's going to do it for us.

BARBIE BOOM

WE FACE CHANGES EVERY DAY

Countries have been facing many changes through the years passed. Since the creation of the Barbie doll the world saw it as a stereotype of what a girl and women should be or look like. The Barbie model at firste was a stereotype of the perfect girl and women, but as the years passed on we could see how Mattel Co. (BARBIES CREATOR) changed the Barbie's original look, and also introduced friends and accesories; these can be used as a measurment of how society has changed.

When Barbie first came out she was a perfect blonde girl with the most fashionable outfits, but as years passed every girl wanted to be as cute and as blonde as Barbie. People started noticing this little thing that made this stereotype really bad for society. The first thing that was considered a controversy was Barbie's measurmentes. Because everyone wanted to be like Barbie, society started facing problems as anorexia and bluimia. Next controversy was that Barbie was blonde and it was being selled over the world which meaned that the perfect stereotype for girls was being blonde, so Mattel Co. have to bring out an idea to erease this thinking of discrimination. The big shot was when Mattel created Barbie's friends, but the interesting part of this new dolls was that every new friend had different physical charactereistics which mean that every friend was representing a girl from other side of the world. But there is also a really good part of this Barbie always have been seen in different carreers like giving women the chance to decide in a variety of things what they could be in th future this is a really good example of how things have changed in society through years.

Barbie was the first women looking doll, and she still is part ouf our life but with many changes. Changes in Barbie's appearance and creations of new dolls represent the changes we have had as a community like women and men being equal in society, and Barbie also showed us that everyone should be conisdered the sam without importance of skin color or clothes. Do not ever think of Barbie just like an 11 and a half inch piece of plastic. Barbie is now considered as a representation of women and dolls.

REMEBER YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL THE WAY YOU ARE, JUST BE UNIQUE.