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Essay heading: How far does today's media impact on the desire for young people to be ultra thin, and how does this affect their health?
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Body image is most strongly affected during puberty.
It is believed that young people configure an internalised ideal body and compare their actual or perceived actual shape against the socially represented ideal (Peacock, M 2001). This presents a body image which is elastic in that it will feel different at different times and in different contexts, such as being on a beach in a swimsuit...
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This presents a body image which is elastic in that it will feel different at different times and in different contexts, such as being on a beach in a swimsuit.
The ideal body image has become smaller, thinner and differently shaped over 20 years. The ideal body is now sculptured, pared of fat, with a BMI that would place most models firmly in the anorexic category...
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