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Body Image and the Media
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you had the chance to change one thing about your body, would you?
you compare your body to celebrities or models?
you have ever counted calories
Raise your hand if….
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Female “Perfect Body”
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Male “Perfect Body”
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How an individual views their self-image
Individuals judge their attractiveness based on their views of their body image
What is body image?
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Thinking or talking about the flaws in your body
Spending a lot of time in front of a mirror, obsessing about specific body parts.
Weighing yourself frequently Obsessing about calorie intake
Signs of distorted body image
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Anorexia-a disorder that makes people refuse to eat because they feel they’re too fat
Bulimia- binge eating then purging their food
Anorexia and Bulimia
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Among children in grades 1 - 3, 42% want to be thinner Among children 8 - 10 years old, 50% are dissatisfied with their body size Among 10 year olds, 81% are afraid of becoming fat Among 9 - 11 year olds, 46% are on diets "sometimes" or "very often" 82% of those 9 - 11 year old's families are also on diets "sometimes" or "very often" Among 11 - 13 year old girls, more than 50% believe they are overweight Among 6th graders, 70% claim their concerns over their weight, size and shape began in
3rd - 5th grade Among 13 year olds, 80% have tried to lose weight Among 9 - 15 year old girls, 50% exercise to lose weight Among 9 - 15 year old girls, 50% restrict their calories to lose weight Among 9 - 15 year old girls, 5% steal laxatives or diet pills from their parents to lose weight More than 10% of teenage girls report binge eating at least once a week More than 3% of teenage boys report binge eating at least once a week 44% of US women are on a diet 29% of US men are on a diet 35% of people on a diet develop some sort of pathology around food 20 - 25% of that 35% eventually develop a full-blown eating disorder 80% of US women do not like how they look $109mil is spent in the US every day on diet and weight loss products
Statistics
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Diet commercials
Having extremely thin people advertise a product
The focus is to to “lose weight” when it should be ton “become healthy”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei6JvK0W60I
The media stresses on the need to be thin by…
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The average American woman is 5'4” tall and weighs 140 pounds. The average American model is 5'11” tall and weighs 117 pounds
Think about it…
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