Question

How does one's body image issues influence lifestyle choices. Discuss

Answer 1

Body image has a lot of influence on one's cerebration and consequent cognition, which further has an impact on one's lifestyle choices. There is something known as BDD (Body dimorphia disorder) which is essentially issues that begin to surface in the mental healthy of an individual by virtue of the body image they harbor of themselves, this could potentially lead to eating disorders.

Body image has dominated the cultural realm since a long time, and has had considerable impact on impressionable minds. So much so that, people have gone to certain not so healthy (physically and/or mentally) choices in order to achieve a certain goal. For instance, people keeping grueling exercise and diet regimes, or even the other spectrum people who feel so depressed with their body image that they end up eating more - comfort food and moving lesser.

These are all lifestyle choices and factors that are consequently impacted by the way one views themselves.