This week, hundreds of monuments and buildings around the country glow blue and green, National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA)’s trademark colors, in honor of NEDA week. As Co-President of Reshaping Reality, a club designated to promote positive body image among young people, I wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t bring light to a serious issue within our community that seems to be invisible: the promotion of calorie counting in health classes.
A freshman in my club recently mentioned that in her health class students were required to download an app that records everything they eat in a day, which then calculates their caloric intake. Having personally struggled with such apps in middle school, this was immediately a concern of mine.
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