When live crab is being cooked in a pot of boiling water, they pull down on each other to try to get themselves to the top. This scenario is similar to

the twenty-first century’s new obsession with losing weight. Versions of the perfect weight are the pictures everyone sees of celebrities and photo shopped models. Though these images of perfection are not realistic, some will strive to look like these models. “It’s mostly like, magazines and TV shows that make me feel like I need to be skinny but I personally just see it as a motivation to eat and look healthier but I know some people just take it way to far,” Sophomore Madelyn Kretsinger said. Every culture has had its own idea of skinny, but no society has ever pushed its citizens to perform such actions of desperation to be “beautiful” as much as today’s. A celebrity-endorsed diet is the “Vinegar Shots” diet. Supporters like Megan Fox and Fergie claim that taking a small shot of vinegar before each meal flushes fats from the colon while eliminating the desire to continue eating. “I think all crazy diets do is play with your head and get your hopes up, especially the vinegar shots diet. Some diets like that just cannot work, all that will do is leave a bad taste in your mouth,” sophomore Jena Pennington said. A diet that some scientists do not condone is the “Air Diet”, otherwise known as a publically allowed way to be anorexic. “Followers put food on their plates, cut it, dig their fork into it, and hold it up to their mouths to savor the scent—never tasting it,” US Health News said. “I know anorexia is a mental disorder by people who think they aren’t skinny enough. They resort to just not eating and ultimately its horrible for you and unhealthy, it is way too dangerous to do it for just a sport or at all” junior Nate Angle said. As obesity boils like water beneath, Americans strive to pull themselves to the top of the pot, and take drastic measures just to escape. Though, another thing crabs and today’s citizens have in common, is that they seem to forget there’s a lid on that pot.

dying todietwritten by Olivia Brown | photos by Cortney Snyder

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Many students use diets to control their weight, but it is important to not harm the body while dieting. “Floating food in front of your starving body is not healthy, mentally of physically. When you’re hungry you should eat, just watch how much food you in-take. It is pointless and unhealthy to not eat in fear of gaining weight,” junior Beth Damgar said.

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Many students use diets to watch their weight, and often it is not healthy

“Dieting can be a great thing, especially for keeping yourself healthy. However, not eating in order to lose weight is not the right way to do it,” senior Micaela Patterson said.

“Eating healthy to lose weight is the only right way to diet. Not eating and starving yourself isn’t dieting, it is only harming the body,” senior Lincoln McCoy said.

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