‘Improving Your Body Image through Catholic Teaching'
by John Acquaviva, PhD
Cloaked in promises of freedom and empowerment, a war has threatened the lives of millions of people of all ages, but especially the young. This is the body image war. From Photoshop to misleading advertising to the use of paid celebrities, society constantly feeds us a cocktail of lies about how we are supposed to look and feel about ourselves.
And so many have bought in, leading to catastrophic results: eating disorders, body obsession, plastic surgery, steroids, peer pressure and depression. How do we combat this onslaught?
The answer is to turn to God and the teachings of His Church. In “Improving Your Body Image through Catholic Teaching,” Dr. John Acquaviva relies on such works as Theology of the Body, Holy Scripture, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and on his own history as a college professor of exercise science to explore the troublesome world of body image in the 21st century and what we can do to fight it.
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