I believe
female body dissatisfaction is at epidemic levels, and it's a top driver of food addiction and its sidekicks: eating disorders, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, chronic stress, hormone misfires, accelerated aging, and obesity.
Not exact matches
Giving one year of estrogen replacement to
female athletes with exercise - induced menstrual irregularities improves drive for thinness,
body dissatisfaction and uncontrolled eating, a new study finds.
Only romantic attachment anxiety was found to be associated with concerns and
dissatisfaction about
body shape in a samples of
female college students (Hardit & Hannum, 2012; Koskina & Giovazolias, 2010).
Evans and Wertheim (1998) found in their sample of young adult
females that anxious romantic attachment was associated with drive for thinness and general
body dissatisfaction.