Sentences with phrase «unhealthy body ideals»

«Women might be able to fight off the harmful media impacts on their body satisfaction if they understand how these messages are designed to make them fall for unrealistic and even unhealthy body ideals.»

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Now, before the comments begin, I want to clarify that I am not advocating that women overeat, eat unhealthy food, give up trying to maintain a healthy body and weight through diet and exercise, I am simply claiming that perhaps what we consider the ideal needs to change.

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1) Girls who receive the intervention compared with a control group of girls who do not, will show significantly lower levels of depressive symptoms, body dissatisfaction, unhealthy dietary restraint, bulimic symptoms, internalisation of the thin ideal, body comparison, appearance conversations, expectancies of thinness, and higher media literacy and self - esteem;