How to Build a Healthy Body Image
Most psychologists and emotional specialists agree that the root cause of eating disorders is a negative body image. This means people see distorted images of their bodies when they look into the mirror and feel “fat” whether or not the term describes their physical body structure accurately.
A negative body image could be the result of one or all of the following factors:
~Negative Conditioning The attitudes of our parents and family members toward food and “beauty” play a huge role in building our body image. For instance, if parents are obsessed with counting calories or give a lot of importance to outer appearance, the child may develop similar attitudes and may end up developing a negative body image.
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