This is a presentation I gave at a workshop for local high school girls. The presentation was based off the research I did for my college thesis on women\’s body image and the media\’s impact.
Only half of those women are estimated to be overweight
Body Image defined as “feelings and beliefs about, perceptions of, and attitudes toward the attractiveness of one’s body” (Smolak and Striegel-Moore 2001)
AN characterized by a refusal to maintain a minimally normal body weight. BN characterized by repeated episodes of binge eating followed by inappropriate compensatory behaviors such as self-induced vomiting; misuse of laxatives; fasting; excessive exercise. Disturbance in perception of body shape, weight is essential feature in AN and BN (American Psychiatric Association 2002)