[news] Men Catch Up to Women in Poor Body Image, Eating Disorders

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

For decades, women with perfect bodies have adorned the covers of fashion magazines and created an ideal that teenage girls aspired to...The obsession with the flawless body has recently crossed genders, causing men to suffer from eating disorders, consider steroid use and to have unhealthy obsessions with weightlifting, new research suggests.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/9325