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When using blood flow restriction repetitively, it can help prevent muscular atrophy and also help with weakness that is caused by chronic unloading.

Blood flow restriction training involves using specialized straps or bands to intentionally reduce circulation to exercising muscles. Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and many other social media accounts contribute to body image concerns, dieting, body surveillance, a drive for thinness and self-objectification in adolescents. These sites allow people, young and older, to post themselves to get others approval and for then to decide if they have the look that society thinks men and women should have to be accepted in it. People post themselves, comment, as if others post, and constantly compare themselves to others.

For centuries, men and women have always had different expectations as far as the ideal body image. Both genders have always been under pressure to look a certain way. In ancient history records many strong female figures (Hart). In ancient Egypt, 1292 - 1069 B.C., an important aspect of female beauty was having long braided hair. This is because they thought that braids framed a symmetrical face. Women also wore thick black kohl around their eyes, like eyeliner that people wear today. They were also shown as slender, with high waists and slim shoulders (Hart).

Ancient Greece, 500 - 300 B.C., was mainly all about men. Aristotle stated that women were just deformed men. In this point in time, it was all about the ideal male physic. Women were often shamed if they did not look like a man. Nude sculptures and paintings of women were covered (Howard). The ideal man was seen to be lean and muscular. The ideal men was very unrealistic, having muscle groups that humans cannot actually achieve. Ancient Greece is when Plato is credited for the “golden ratio”, which is a mathematical equation that determines beauty and attractiveness. The equation shows that women's faces should be at about two thirds as wide as they are long and both sides of the face should be perfectly symmetrical in order to be considered beautiful (Scruton).

From the 1300s to the 1500s is known as the Renaissance era. During this time artist decided to get away from modest and religious art. So painters and sculptors started to naked women and their breast to show fertility and sexuality (Hart). Leonardo Da Vinci was an artist at this time that drew out how the ideal body should look. Much like Ancient Greece, the use of this was like the golden ratio to show how proportioned all the parts on the body should be (Scruton).

In the late 1800’s, women were accepted only if they were a soft, supple, dainty female with their frame defined by a swan bill corset (Howard). This body type was known as a “Gibson girl”. The Gibson girl was originally seen in the illustrations of Charles Dana Gibson. In this, the “ideal female form” of America was defined as a woman with a thin waist, large chest, rounded shoulders, and smooth neck. These girls were also labeled as “fragile”. In the 1920’s is when Flappers started to appear. Flappers were described as trendy women with a short bob haircut and had a slender, lean build (Hart). These women went against the normal consideration as beautiful, polite, acceptable behavior of women. Flappers smoked, drank, danced, drove cars, listened to jazz, and participated in casual sex. By this time woman were able to vote, drive cars, choose whom they wanted to marry, and even get jobs that were before only for men. Also in the late 1800s to around the early 1900s, men’s ideal body had changed. Around this period, bigger men were considered wealthier; it showed that they did not need to work hard for what they had. Men were also considered more attractive if they had a bigger belly (Howard).