The pressure to be perfect leads people to do extremely dangerous things to themselves and to their bodies. Everyone wants to be skinny, pretty, and of course have a group of friends that are always there for them. College students are especially vulnerable to this pressure. Freshman students move away from everything that they have been used to for the last eighteen years of their life: family, friends, etc. In order to make friends they may go to parties. Drink so they’re more outgoing and friendly. Then, from all the alcohol they drink and the lack of exercise and organized high school sports that kept you in shape back in the day, they ultimately end up gaining weight. Instead of getting to the gym and working out, many people (men and women) resort to eating disorders such as bulimia and anorexia to lose the weight. Although they are doing harm to their bodies and they know it, they can’t stop because it brings results. Many people wonder how someone could possibly do this to their bodies. College also is the time where many students experiment with drugs and alcohol. For this paper I want to focus on all the things that college students do that result in harm to their bodies and research on what causes them to do these things. Some of the topics i’m thinking about are drugs and alcohol, eating disorders and things along those lines.
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