From Christopher West’s book, “Theology of the Body Explained”:

In our day and age, the desire for youthfulness and beauty has spawned its own religion.  This false “cult of the body” is saturated with a million and one “sacraments” that promise the “grace” of remaining forever young and attractive.  Thousands of beauty aids promise skin without spot or wrinkle or “any such thing.”  Thousands of creams, soaps, scrubs, and medications pledge to free us from our blemishes.  Thousands of other products — from power shakes to thigh-busters — guarantee to reshape our metabolisms and our figures in order to restore our shapeliness and youthful vigor.  Untwist this distorted cult of bodily youth and beauty, and what do we have?  Our desire for holiness; our desire for sanctification, for purity and innocence; our desire for heaven, where we will share in the radiant beauty and eternal youth of Christ’s Bride.