When you are trying to determine your ideal body weight many professionals recommend that you also take into consideration your frame size, whether it is small, medium or large. After you determine your ideal body weight you can also determine what body type you are in order to incorporate both factors into any weight loss […]
Psychologists are finding that eating disorders are becoming more and more prevalent in teenagers and older children. There are often several factors that contribute to the development of eating disorders that include psychological, sociological, familial and media images. In fact, many of today\’s psychologists blame the increased number of younger children and teenagers who are
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Eating disorders affect the lives of the people who suffer from them as well as family and friends. Those who experience an eating disorder also experience health effects as well as social effects. There are three main eating disorders that have received much of the media attention in the past several years. The first is
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Western society has valued thinness since Twiggy burst on the fashion landscape in 1966 and began the love affair of the fashion industry with women who are a size 2 and smaller. This affair has become so ingrained into society that the number of infomercials selling diet and exercise products only continues to rise year
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Sociologists believe that we are bombarded with over 400 different types of advertising messages on a daily basis. We see images that we see in the media almost daily of what the \”perfect\” female or male body should look like. Teenagers are especially assaulted by images on television, their magazines or on the Internet with
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