Body image is the concept that includes the thoughts, feelings, and attitudes related to one 's own body. Body image and eating disturbances occur when those perceptions and attitudes become distorted or agitated and include eating-disordered behaviors. For example, disturbed body image feelings include being dissatisfied with one 's body, disturbed body image perceptions include overestimating one 's body size, disturbed body image thoughts include chronic thoughts about weight loss and weight gain, and disturbed body image and eating actions include exercising excessively, binging and purging, and fasting to lose weight (Botta).
This negative body perception begins at a young age. Through the media, we are fed facts about how we need to live by the standards in our society or we will face a life of depression, failure and overall an unhealthy life. Starting at childhood, the media 's message makes its way into our impressionable minds. In
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