Why women have body image issues

Aug 26, 2008 13:52

    Dieting
  • One out of three women and one out of four men are on a diet at any given time.
  • 35% of occasional dieters progress into pathological dieting.
  • Two out of five women and one out of five men would trade three to five years of their life to achieve their weight goals.
  • Diet and diet related products are a 33 billion dollar a year industry.
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tsgeisel September 5 2008, 01:05:37 UTC
Two out of five women and one out of five men would trade three to five years of their life to achieve their weight goals.

It's entirely possible that maintaining my current weight is costing me three to five years of my life.

I have no issue with the rest of these facts, and completely agree with the idea that our current societal body-image ideal is skewed. But that particular statistic needs a bit more context.

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b_dazzld September 5 2008, 02:20:36 UTC
It does :)

But I think the main point of this statement is that it IS an issue that too many people would be willing to shorten their lives (thus shortening time spent with loved ones, etc etc) so they can be "societies version of ideal". How can that be okay?

Don't get me wrong I would like to be viewed as a typical beauty, but if I were told that could only happen if I gave up 3-5 years of my life (when I don't even know how long I have to live) there's no way in hell I'd agree to that. That could mean I'd die tomorrow, or a year from now or heck that very minute ^.~. Seems an insane bargain to be willing to enter into just to be thin and if people were polled on this... that is a sad statement about our current societal views on weight.

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