March+-+Body+Image

March Issue - Body Image

__http://articles.cnn.com/2007-03-15/health/BK.girls.body.image_1_body-image-middle-school-girls-dads-daughters?_s=PM:HEALTH__
 * "Girls are three times more likely than boys to have a negative body image, according to the National Mental Health Information Center"
 * "'Focus on what her brain does, what her mind does and what her spirit does," he says. "What her body does and not on how it looks, because that's not why we have our bodies. We don't have our bodies for their appearance -- we have our bodies for what they can do and what it helps us bring to the world'"

__http://www.webmd.com/healthy-beauty/features/helping-girls-with-body-image__

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 * "In one recent study, researchers found that TV programs focused on appearance are swaying the self-esteem of girls as young as 5"
 * "The average teen girl gets about 180 minutes of media exposure daily and only about 10 minutes of parental interaction a day, says Renee Hobbs, EdD, associate professor of communications at Temple University"
 * 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.
 * The National Institute of Mental Health estimates that eating disorders affect more than 5 million Americans each year.
 * An estimated one thousand women die each year of anorexia nervosa. As many as one in ten college women suffer from a clinical or nearly clinical eating disorder, including 5.1% who suffer from bulimia nervosa.
 * Approximately five percent of adolescent and adult women and one percent of men have anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, or binge eating disorder.
 * Fifteen percent of young women have substantially disordered eating attitudes and behaviors.
 * Studies indicate that by their first year of college, 4.5 to 18 percent of women and 0.4 percent of men have a history of bulimia and that as many as 1 in 100 females between the ages of 12 and 18 have anorexia.
 * Statistics from the National Center for Health Statistics show that "anorexia" or "anorexia nervosa" was the underlying cause of death noted on 101 death certificates in 1994, and was mentioned as one of multiple causes of death on another 2,657 death certificates.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Five to ten million adolescent girls and women struggle with eating disorders and borderline eating conditions.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Each year millions of people in the United States are affected by serious and sometimes life-threatening eating disorders. More than 90 percent of those afflicted are adolescent and young adult women.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">According to The Center For Mental Health Services 90 percent of those who have eating disorders are women between the ages of 12 and 25.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Each year millions of people in the United States are affected by serious and sometimes life-threatening eating disorders. More than 90 percent of those afflicted are adolescent and young adult women.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">According to The Center For Mental Health Services 90 percent of those who have eating disorders are women between the ages of 12 and 25.