Topic Hot List!

Introduction

The links below will get you started on how to find information about body image! These include topics on body image defined, eating disorders, nutrition and exercise, stereotypes, and your self-concept/self-esteem. Have fun!
 

The Internet Resources

• Troubled teens: their struggle with body image and eating disorders. - Statistics and trends; The role of parents and family; The role of the media; Eating disorders; Anorexia nervosa; Bulimia nervosa; Treatment.

   

Body Image: What is it?

• Body image quiz. - Tests students' perceptions of the severity of body image and eating disorder problems.

   

• Men's Health - the Body Image Issue. - Today, body image issues are shared by both genders. Men are facing increased pressure to meet the standard of the muscular defined body that is promoted in film and t.v. as well as by the fitness industry.

   

• My Body Shape. - Definition of body image; Incidence; Suggestions for healthy living.

   

Stereotypes

• Skinny models impact girls body image. - Affect of models and the image they portray on teenagers (with statistics).

   

• Fighting back. - Ceo defectors; The anti-diet; Photo phobia; Cultured ideal.

   

• Body as a commodity. - Diet inc.; Media craze; Fat USA.

   

• Is Beauty In the Eye of the Beholder? - Is beauty in the eye of the beholder or in the beholder's biology?

   

• No one is immune to cultural imagery. - Short article on cultural imagery.

   

• ...But popular culture need not be all-powerful - Short article on the influence of the media and possible solutions.

   

• Body Image & the Media... What's the connection? - Media model trends; Reality check; What to do if...

   

• Are images of women on TV, in magazines, and in movies damaging to your self-esteem and health? - Lots of facts, myths and opinions on the effect of the media. Includes extreme views on the issue. Students can have their own say in a poll.

   

• Full Voice. - Messages on the reality of media advertising and the social construction of bodies.

   

• Calista Flockhart - Sixty minutes episode discussing her fame and the speculation of her suffering an eating disorder.

   

• Photo Gallery - Photo Gallery of Male and Female Celebrities

   

Your Self-concept and Self-esteem

• Adiosbarbie: 7 ways to love your body through thick and thin. - A body image site for every body (i.e. 7 ways to love your body through thick and thin, eating disorders etc).

   

• Body Image: Health versus obsession. - The problem and a questionnaire for students to complete about their own body image.

   

• Womens campaign to end body hatred and dieting. - How to curb our appetite for dieting; The estimated size of the weight loss industry (table with facts in dollars); The impact of the thinness/dieting mania; Affirmations to improve self-confidence, self-care, self-expression and self-concept.

   

• Do you have a body image problem? - Information about body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) and a quiz: determining whether or not you have a body image problem.

   

• How's Your Body Image? - Another self-assessment instrument.

   

• Eating to stay healthy. - A new ideology about weight and self-perception for improved health-related behaviors.