Body Image at a Glance

Body image is the way you see yourself and imagine how you look.

Having a positive body image means that, most of the time, you see yourself accurately, you feel comfortable in your body, and you feel good about the way you look.

It is common to struggle with body image, no matter who you are.

Severe negative body image can lead to serious eating and exercise disorders

How do you feel about your self esteem?

do you feel inferior or superior to people?

whats your opinion?

When you Look in the Mirror, do you Like What you See?

Is your body positive or negative? If your answer is negative, you're not alone. Women in the Uniter States are under pressure to measure up to certain social and culteral definitions of beauty. This can lead to poor body imaging. People are trying to be the ideal "Barbie".

Teen health and the media

• In a survey of girls 9 and 10 years old, 40% have tried to lose weight, according to an ongoing study funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
  
  
  
• In a study on fifth graders, 10 year old girls and boys told researchers they were dissatisfied with their own bodies after watching a music video by Britney Spears or a clip from the TV show "Friends".
  
  
  
• A 1996 study found that the amount of time an adolescent watches soaps, movies and music videos is associated with their degree of body dissatisfaction and desire to be thin.
  
  
  
• One study reports that at age thirteen, 53% of American girls are "unhappy with their bodies." This grows to 78% by the time girls reach seventeen.

facts about body imaging

1. Twenty years ago, models weighed 8% less than the average woman. Today, they weigh 23% less than the average woman.


2. The average American woman is 5’4” tall and weighs 140 pounds. The average American model is 5’11” tall and weighs 117 pounds.


3. If Barbie was a real woman, she’d have to walk on all fours due to her proportions.


4. About 7% of 12th grade males have used steroids in order to become more muscular.


5. If GI Joe were human, he’d have larger biceps than any bodybuilder in history.


6. One out of every four college aged women has an eating disorder.


7. It is estimated that 40 to 50% of American women are trying to lose weight at any point in time.


8. Americans spend more than 40 billion dollars a year on dieting and diet-related products – that’s roughly equivalent to the amount the U.S. Federal Government spends on education each year! Almost half of all women smokers smoke because they see it as the best way to control their weight. Of these women, 25% will die of a disease caused by smoking.


9. In 2007, there were about 11.7 million cosmetic procedures performed in the U.S. Ninety one percent of these were performed on women.


10. A study found that 53% of thirteen-year-old American girls are unhappy with their bodies. This number grows to 78% by the time girls reach seventeen.


11. According to the Girl Scouts Research Institute, one-third of all girls have a distorted idea about their weight.

Eating Disorders.

Types of Eating Disorders.

Anorexia Nervosa

The term anorexia is Greek which means “lack of appetite.” Anorexia is an eating disorder determined by low body weight and body image distortion. It is an obsessive fear of gaining weight...

Bulimia Nervosa

Bulimia nervosa is a type of eating disorder. It is often called just bulimia. A person with bulimia eats a lot of food in a short amount of time...

Binge Eating

A binge eating disorder is characterized primarily by periods of uncontrolled, impulsive, or continuous eating beyond the point of feeling comfortably full...

Anorexia Athletica

Anorexia athletica is when a person no longer enjoys exercise, but feels obligated to do so...

Over Exercise

Over exercise, or compulsive exercising is a problem when the person is scheduling life around exercise just like people with eating disorders schedule their lives around eating or not eating...

Over Eating

Compulsive over eating is the excessive consumption of food (bingeing), often thousands of calories at a time...

Night Eating

Night eating syndrome is characterized by a lack of appetite in the morning and overeating at night with agitation and insomnia...

Orthorexia

Orthorexia nervosa is one of a little-known group of eating disorders. Orthorexia nervosa refers to a fixation on eating proper food...

Issues.

I'm fat. I'm too skinny. I'd be happy if I were taller, shorter, had curly hair, straight hair, a smaller nose, bigger muscles, longer legs.

Do any of these statements sound familiar? As a teen, you're going through a ton of changes in your body. And as your body changes, so does your image of yourself.

Self-esteem is all about how much people value themselves, the pride they feel in themselves, and how worthwhile they feel. Self-esteem is important because feeling good about yourself can affect how you act. A person who has high self-esteem will make friends easily, is more in control of his or her behavior, and will enjoy life more.

--->Influence<---

The Infuences:

• Parents


• Peers


• Friends


• Models


• Television


• Media


• Stores

Statistics

Eating Disorders:

Women- 7 million struggle

Men- 1 million struggle



Media:

Women- the average woman is 5'4" tall and 140 pounds

Men- the average man is 5'11" tall and 117 pounds



Children influences by parents, peers, and media:

42% of elementary students between 1st and 3rd grade want to be thin

80% of children 10 years old are afraid of being fat

Body Image Media

Women- Female bodies are everywhere. Some advertising business's use womens' bodies to sell prodects ranging from food to cars. Pressure on women to look and behave certain ways is so deeply ingrained in our pysches that it's easy to overlook the mass culture has on how people feel about their bodies.

Men- "Culture of muscularity" is whats hot on most males thoughts. TV images of muscular, shirtless men lifting weights and selling cologne and deodorant leave men with the insecurity that they are unhappy with their muscles.

Teenage Girls- In todays society teenage girls feel the need to be skinny or guys won't like them. They feel that they need to starve themselves to lose weight to be as small as other girls. The latest fashions also influence their body image. Hollister and Abercrombie modles aren't "fat". Girls tend to look up and try to look like most models.

Teenage Boys- Most "popular" teenage males are athletes. Peers develope the feeling that they need to be athletic to help look good. Also to work out and have a nice body to get ladies. Men aren't very concerned with body images as much as females.