Body Image & The Media
Eating Disorders
Facts About Body Image & Eating Disorders
- 81% of 10 year old girls are afraid of being "fat"
- 42% of 1-3 graders would like to be thinner
- 69% of girls in 5-12 grade say that magazines influenced their idea of a perfect body
- 91% of women are unhappy with their body
- 95% of people with eating disorders are between the ages of 12-26
- Females are more likely to develop a eating disorder than males
- 53% of 13 year old girls are unhappy with their body, it increases to 78% when they reach 17
- NIMH estimates that more than 5 million Americans are affected by eating disorders
- Types of eating disorders are Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder
- Anorexia Nervosa has the highest mortality rate as high as 20%
What Is my Definition of Body Image
My definition of body image is how you see yourself when you look in the mirror or when you see a picture of yourself in your mind. What you believe about your own appearance including your height, weight, and shape.
How to Avoid Judging Others Based on Physical Size/Appearence
To avoid judging others based on physical size and appearance is you should keep hateful comments to yourself.
5 Tips on How to Improve Body Image
- Stop saying negative things about your own or others bodies and refuse to listen to negative body talk.
- Take active measures to heal your own body image issues.
- Enact a media ban
- Spend less time worrying about your body and looking in the mirror
- Give yourself reasons daily why you think skinnier people look or feel happier