BODY IMAGE
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An article from The Weekend Australian Magazine about the extreme lengths women go to achieve the California look
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Body Image and Self Esteem TeensHealth website
www.kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/body_image/
Links to resources about body image and how this affects the way we live. Government initiative.
www.healthinsite.gov.au/topics/Body_Image
A study at Flinders University has shown that media education can promote critical viewing skills and less concern about body image and weight.
www.youngmedia.org.au/mediachildren/
Adolescent body image suffers from media images of the impossibly thin. Flinders Journal: June 10 - June 23, 2002.
www.flinders.edu.au/news/articles/?
A FORMER international model and one-time Miss Universe has hit out at the fashion industry for promoting a distorted body image
www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19460168-29277,00.html
Body image is how you perceive, think and feel about your body. Poor body image is becoming a male problem too.
www.goforyourlife.vic.gov.au/hav/articles.nsf/pages/Body_image_issues_for_men?
Body image for men and women. It is common for men and women to think that their body. is bigger than it really is.
www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/.../ByPDF/Body_image_for_men_and_women/$File/Body_image_for_men_and_women
Often models and actors don't look like the pictures. One source of stereotypical messages about boys' body image may be video games.
www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/gender/focus/bodyimage.htm