Social Media's affect on a healthy lifestyle

Hi Everyone, my name is Kayla Taylor and I am a junior Criminal Justice major. I am from Richmond, Virginia and enjoy working out and binge watching all my favorite shows. My topic is about how social media affects a healthy lifestyle. Many people find inspiration to start a healthy lifestyle on social media such as Facebook and Instagram. There are so many tutorials on healthy recipes and fitness that makes a healthy lifestyle accessible to anyone. My topic is important because many people spend countless hours on social media and for some people that is to watch their favorite fitness gurus and to gain motivation to workout. The people who would be great sources to my topic are fitness enthusiast as well as people who lead a healthy lifestyle inside and out. I hope to be able to contribute to people's motivation to have a healthy lifestyle by leading them to many social media accounts that have a positive outlook on a healthy lifestyle. #372T

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Here's Why Social Media Harms Your Teen's Mental Health

What is the impact of social media usage on the mental health of young people? This is a pressing question for psychiatric researchers, who have conducted rigorous studies on the topic. These studies produce consistent findings: heavy utilization of social media is associated with poorer mental health.

Part of a healthy lifestyle is having a healthy mind. When social media becomes an everyday factor in one’s life, a healthy mind can suffer. This article explains how social media can lead to a teen feeling like their life is not good enough. Things such as depression an anxiety can occur after seeing other people experience luxury on their pages. Researchers said that recent Facebook use worsens how people feel moment to moment and how satisfied they are with their lives. Check out this article to read more on how social media can lead to depression and anxiety amongst teens.

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Experts say the self-bragging pictures of shiny, perfect lives on social media encourage other users to feel negative about their own lives and bodies.

Have you ever looked at someone on social media and felt like you are not living your life the right way? This article talks about how social media sites such as twitter and Instagram portray peoples life as something its not. One example is that there living a healthy life and showing off their thigh gap as a accomplishment. One of the newer trends is having a thigh gap and many social media celebrities and models are showing off their thigh gap to their followers. What this can do is make people feel like they are not good enough because they don’t have a thigh gap. I feel like this can cause anorexia because people will feel the need to not eat in order to work towards a thigh gap or even another fitness goal.

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For the past several months I've been on a "social media diet." No, I haven't been refraining from using Facebook, Twitter and other social media. I've b...

This article explains a positive affect social media has on weight loss. In the article the guy explains how he lost weight in the past with the help of a nutritionist and personal trainer. Now that he knows everything he needs to do to successfully lose weight he needs to gain motivation to actually do it. Like many of us motivation is the only thing that keeps us from starting a healthy lifestyle. Larry decided to turn to Facebook as a way to hold himself accountable and continue to stay motivated. I believe that this article was very informative on my curation topic because social media can be a way for people to lose weight. So often all we see on the news is how social media sites create couch potatoes and support a sedentary lifestyle. This is not always the case and I believe that this article is a conformation that social media can be a benefit to losing weight.

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Does social media impact on body image? - BBC News

What impact is social media having on young people’s attitudes to the way they look?

I like this article because it talks about a young lady’s personal experience with being body conscious and experiencing cyberbullying. She talks about how she didn’t realize there was things she needed to change until people started point stuff they didn't like about her. Kelsey decided to create a program where she talks to teachers about body positivity and hopes they can relate it to their classrooms. I appreciate this article because in order to have a healthy lifestyle one must have a healthy mind and not think less of themselves.

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How Social Media Is a Toxic Mirror

Instagram and Snapchat are affecting teens' body image

This article is very interesting. It talks about how parents are told to be concerned about their child possibly being cyberbullied or posting the right things instead of worrying about how they see their body. One of the downfalls to social media is the fact that many teens become body conscious. The article points out how psychologist have linked social media use to body concerns. I believe that this article is a good read because it informs people on how teens can fall victim to body insecurities through social media use. This article also talks about how boys are equally possible to be damaged by social media as girls.

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-161lbs and still working for change!! There are no excuses. If you want it…you need to work for it! And all progress is worth it. Sometimes, the scale shows awesome improvements. Sometimes, it’s non scale victories that mark incredible improvements. Either way, the change that I feel, see, and experience each day keeps me motivated! What keeps you motivated?

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Pictures like this posted on social media help people become motivated to work out and eat right. When they see a person who had to dedicate their time, and strength into paying close attention to what they feed their body, it encourages them to do the same.

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Why Do Social Networks Increase Stress?

It's hard to remember life before social media. How did we ever know what our distant, high school friends' kids looked like? Or what they cooked their f...

Stress can be caused by a number of reasons but one can definitely be trying to keep up with others. Social media is perfect for seeing what your peers and family all over the country is doing but it also can be stressful. Part of social media is to show what your doing and all the fun stuff going on in your life. It can become stressful when you see everyone else on your page traveling, getting married, and moving up in life. This article talks about how stress is caused from social media and how keeping up with the Joneses doesn’t help with relieving stress

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Research Links Heavy Facebook And Social Media Usage To Depression

Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine recently conducted a study about the effects of social media habits on the moods of users. The research determined that the more time young adults use social media, the more likely they are [...]

This article is very interesting as it talks about how social media can cause depression in young adults. Part of having a healthy lifestyle is having a healthy mind. Depression can effect a person’s day to day decisions and cause them to lead an unhealthy life. In this article is a study done with 19 to 32 year olds in which they asked how much time do they spend on social media and then asked them had a depression assessment to associate the two.

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Why Social Media Causes Anxiety

Social media is a great way to keep up with friends, but the need for more likes, followers, and re-tweets can lead to anxiety and addiction.

Even though social media makes talking to family and friends easier especially when there’s distance between, it can cause anxiety. Anxiety is when a person becomes nervous, anxious, or even fearful. This article talks about how anxiety can come from social media. A person can have anxiety when they constantly get on social media and have a fear of missing out on what’s going on. For instance, if a person couldn’t make a wedding but there’s constantly photos from that wedding being posted on Facebook, the person will continuously check to make sure they don't miss anything.

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Study: Facebook Could Cause Obesity

Researchers at Columbia University have learned that using Facebook may be tied to obesity, due to the negative eating habits that could result from frequent visitation of social networking sites.

This article talks about how Facebook, one of the biggest social media sites can cause obesity. Researchers conducted a survey with 500 people about their Facebook use. 470 of the participants who used Facebook had higher body mass indexes than those who don’t use Facebook as often. People who used  Facebook had high self esteem but were associated with binge eating as social network sites are commonly associated with overeating. The article gives a brief overview of how social media can effect someone’s lifestyle and cause overeating when engaging in websites such as Facebook for a long period of time.

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How social media may be causing you to gain weight

Pictures of to-die-for food and beverages clog the news feeds of 63 percent of social media users ages 13 to 32.

Social media has become one of the most influential aspects in a persons life. A person could be scrolling on Instagram and see a picture of food and automatically crave that food. This article talks about how social media effects people’s eating habits and how the heavier you are, the more likely a food picture will push you to consume more food. As stated in the article, the hashtag food porn has become a trendy hashtag on many social media outlets. this hashtag is seen as people post pictures of their food that looks really good and hashtag it food porn. The article does talk about ways a person can avoid being tempted by the hashtag by eating organic, skipping processed food, and regulating your social media feed so your not tempted by a food picture.

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Interval training could be a fountain of youth

Exercise, especially interval training, encourages your cells to make more proteins for their energy-producing machinery and this stops the aging process, a study finds.

This article talks about how interval training such as HIT is a better way to get cardio in at the gym. HIT is an acronym for high intensity training and is done by training intense for a short amount of time followed by a rest. Social media fitness gurus call this the new thing and rave about how it’s more effective in the gym instead of being on a cardio machine for 30min at a steady pace.

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The Power of Social Media to Affect Our Health and Fitness

Did you Instagram it? No, but it is on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest... Social media is the new "social life" but has its proliferation changed our once-healthy habits? One billion people couldn't possibly be wrong, right?

This article goes in depth about how one lady used social media to find motivation to get ready for a run. She saw other people talking about the race and posting the prize and it made her more motivated the put her all into the race.

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This got to me.

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This picture says a lot about the mind set someone who is trying to lose weight needs to have. Often people want to lose weight because they don’t like the way they look but fail at doing so. I believe that people who try to lose weight but  either give up so easily or gain it back is because they don't love themselves with the body they started with. I've learned that once I was able to love my body the way it was, I had a more positive attitude going into the gym and I was able to keep the weight off.