Health and Beauty

I read to articles. One about health and one about beauty. Here, I will explain them and try to use ideas from myself and my peers to connect them together.

The first article "The Eye of the Beholder" was about the comparison between eastern and western images of beauty. It also explains how western beliefs are spreading to the east. In Nigeria, when a woman gets married, she will be sent to a fattening house become plump and beautiful in the eyes of their fellow Nigerians. Meanwhile, hundreds of women strive to become skinny so they may be beautiful. I personally think this is very satirical in a sense because you have a place here striving to be fat and one striving to be skinny. However, the Nigerian sense of beauty is being lost as the western image of beauty is constantly gaining ground. Lerato Moloi said,"While Africans still prefer women to be fleshier than they do in the West, young girls here are increasingly concerned with being thin." Soon, there will only be one type of beauty. I'd rather have different kinds of beauty then just one. Hopefully, diversity will still remain.

The second article "The Morality of Fat" was about how we see fat today. We see it as sinful in as sense that if we eat it, we will become fat. Back in the day, way way back in back to be precise, we needed to be fat to show that we were wealthy and at a high status. Now, being fat is now unhealthy because it shows that we don't exercise very much. The article says," No fat, please, anything but fat." I think that shows our attitude towards fat very accurately. We are always trying to eat lesser and lesser amounts of fat. But, we eat a lot of fat anyway. The article says that people will trade one kind of fat for another. I think this is where we find the solution. Because we trade one kind of fat for another, there is a need to educate people so they will be able to trade bad fats for good fats. That good fat part wasn't a contradiction by the way.

My peers and I tried to find the connection between the two articles and ultimately, Health and Beauty. The connection between the two articles was obvious. The two articles are connected because one talks about the spread of western ideas of beauty. The other talks about a western idea that can lead to the western idea for beauty. However, the hard part was trying to find how to insure that the ideas of health and beauty are always connected for future generations. This is because we live in an era where one can be considered healthy, but not beautiful, and vice versa. Although we couldn't agree on any entities to ensure these two ideas are connected we figured out how to get them connected. First a person must work on health. I think this is because this step is overlooked a lot a must be considered first. The second is to work on inner beauty. The attempt to look beautiful is always started on outer beauty first, therefore, will nearly always result just one person disagreeing that what the person is doing on the outside isn't beautiful. Inner beauty must be accomplished in order to always exhibit beauty one way. This will get rid of any insecurities, hopefully. I think at this point, one is already beautiful on the outside. They are healthy and are beautiful on the inside. There is no need to look for anything else.