If you are like most women reading women’s magazines today, you get overwhelmed by the amount of advertisements for diet fads, foods that will help you count carbs, low-fat foods and recipes and products to cleanse or purge the system of impurities. The current obsession with perfecting our bodies has become all-consuming for many consumers and very profitable for many small corporations and big companies. Continue reading ‘Body Image and the Modern Diet’
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Anorexia Nervosa is characterized by self-starvation and excessive weight loss. Many women permanently lose fertility, muscle mass and even their lives to this disorder. Continue reading ‘Anorexia Nervosa’
Males vs. Females
Various studies have been conducted for decades that show that self-esteem is consistently related to body image dissatisfaction for women, and women consistently exhibit a more negative body image than men. Even when both men and women are consistent exercisers, the women have poorer body image. Consequently, these studies also demonstrate that historically, there have been sex differences in body image. Continue reading ‘Males vs. Females’