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From a young age children are completely saturated with images from the media. The majority of those are based on impossible images that the normal person can not, and has not chance to reach. Children are told that to be happy and popular they must look like these role models. When people can not live up to these it can lead to depression, and more damaging effects to the child's psyche.

By making body building compulsory you are imprinting the message to children from a young age that not only looking like people from OK and Heat will make them happy, but it is the only way to be, the correct way to be. If a child can not meet these high standards it will not increase the self esteem as the originator of this column suggested but instead destroy it.

Young girls are all ready in this position with the size zero debate raging on. This could make young men in particular, much more likely to get body distrophia, were they believe there body's are disgusting and not up to the standard, destroying their self confidence.

The World of body building is becoming more and more shady. It is estimated that one in three regular users of the gym use some form of steroids, by making body building compulsory this could shoot up, as more and more of the population desperately try to compete. Wrestling has now come under the spotlight for it's steroid abuse, because close to 150 people have died under the age of 60 in the last ten years. This is a huge percentage, and can be linked to the huge amount of steroids they had to take to compete in the 80's and 90's in particualr.

Compulsory body building will not send all children into a spiral of depression, or abuse of chemicals but I believe the percentage of children badly affected will outweigh those positively affected.

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