PSY310H5 Lecture 11: Lecture 11.docx
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While many of the problems peak during adolescence, adolescence itself is not the cause. Obesity is the most common form hat occurs during adolescence. Rates have tripled in the past 30 years. Diet nowadays is food that has high calories and fat. Many adolescence have unhealthy eating behaviours and eating attitudes. Moreover what is common is that they have high levels of body dissatisfaction. 50% considered themselves to be overweight even if they are of normal weight. Many have tried to diet in some form. Deviations from the cultural ideal for body type. Researchers have linked departure from ideal type to those disturbances that we saw. Images of models in magazines have become slimmer. G. i joe action figures have changed since its introduction ; modern day g. i joe has muscular proportions that are impossible to achieve. These images put cultural pressure on adolescence- this is the ideal body type.
