Americans Diets

Greg Soares
English 1101
November 9th 2002

Americans are obsessed with dieting. Females seen particularly obsessed; however, males are not completely forgotten in today's dieting age. Many people diet, and everyone wants small, thin figures. Whys is this so sought after? Society does not accept overweight people, but it has not always been that way.
Females have not always been wrapped up in the way they look, although the female body has always been in the spotlight. What is wanted in the spotlight has changed over time. It has been changed to meet society's wants. In the early 1800s, girls judged their worth by their interactions with others and God. Dieting used to be used less, but females would wear garments called corsets to shape their bodies to a desired figure. Dieting became a fad in the early 1900's when women were sought after that were thin and petite. Instead of eating correctly., women would just starve themselve...