Body Image- at least someone is trying to make a change?

After reading an article in the SMU Daily Campus about body image it actually made me notice that there are advocates here at SMU trying to support a healthy lifestyle for young women. Going to a college where body image is very important to most, it is easy to notice those who clearly pretend to eat, extremely watch what they eat, or blatantly just do not eat anything. Look at the Dedman Center gym at around 5pm, those elliptical and treadmills are all in use by women of SMU (a lot of them being sorority women, or freshman who next semester want to be sorority women).

Although body image will forever be an issue among women at this age, I am glad to see that a  healthy body image is being promoted. The women of  Delta Delta Delta recently held an event for their sorority in which other women paid $2 to attend an exercise event for a four hour long period. By offering opportunities like this, especially targeted to freshman who could some day be a  Delta Delta Delta, they are promoting a healthy ideal for those girls and not a thin ideal that so many seem to seek. As well, this week Kappa Kappa Gamma is holding an event at the Dedman Center that offers an exercise opportunity hosted by their sorority.

Even though both of these events are held by Greek organizations I think it is important that another organization  (preferably non Greek) should start to promote the healthy ideal. Although you can receive information at SMU's health center, it is so much more empowering to see girls just like you promoting a healthy ideal. I hope these events help to change the minds of many young people who are "dying to be thin".