They are a response to dissatisfaction with one's body, the discrepancy between reality and the ideal, which is offered by the media at every turn, but that is unattainable for the majority of the population.
Girls often suffer from the need to lose weight and different ways to prevent food intake (anorexia, bulimia), men feel muscle insufficiency, which causes them to overload the body inadequate training and when they sport brings health complications (inflammation of the tendon, stretch marks on the skin increase in muscle mass, etc.).
This behavior is accompanied by excessive consumption of various food supplements that promote muscle growth (big uremia).
What is big uremia?
Due to the fact that the subjective feeling of a conflict between their own idea of the perfect form and character is characteristic for this disease, scientists began to discrepancies between subjective and objective perception of the body deal more.
Surveys in which it was compared BMI index as an objective measure of subjective self-assessment figures showed that even slim people objectively have objections to his body and perceive it as too thick.
According to Gallup believed in 1973 almost 55% of the women are obese, and in 1990 it was 80% of women believe they are overweight (Crook, 1995).
The surprise is that our inner idea is only minimally correlated with ratings of attractiveness by an unbiased observer
In general, it appears that body image affects the psyche and health, much more than the actual appearance. It is clear that very closely related to problems such as eating disorders, depression and low self-esteem.
Girls often suffer from the need to lose weight and different ways to prevent food intake (anorexia, bulimia), men feel muscle insufficiency, which causes them to overload the body inadequate training and when they sport brings health complications (inflammation of the tendon, stretch marks on the skin increase in muscle mass, etc.).
This behavior is accompanied by excessive consumption of various food supplements that promote muscle growth (big uremia).
What is big uremia?
Due to the fact that the subjective feeling of a conflict between their own idea of the perfect form and character is characteristic for this disease, scientists began to discrepancies between subjective and objective perception of the body deal more.
Surveys in which it was compared BMI index as an objective measure of subjective self-assessment figures showed that even slim people objectively have objections to his body and perceive it as too thick.
According to Gallup believed in 1973 almost 55% of the women are obese, and in 1990 it was 80% of women believe they are overweight (Crook, 1995).
The surprise is that our inner idea is only minimally correlated with ratings of attractiveness by an unbiased observer
In general, it appears that body image affects the psyche and health, much more than the actual appearance. It is clear that very closely related to problems such as eating disorders, depression and low self-esteem.