Basically, researchers suggest that it’s no longer the skinny celebrities that influence teenagers. A new study cited by PhysOrg comes to show that weight control behavior is related to peers and not someone on the outside.
The findings of the study show that not all teen girls equate thin with beautiful for the simple reason that those around them are more on the heavy side. This way, being overweight becomes acceptable, just like being underweight is acceptable in schools with a larger number of girls who are on inappropriate diets. In the end, whether a teen girl wants to lose, gain or maintain the same weight seems to be mostly dependent on how her mates look like.
The findings showed that teen girls were more aware of what others like them were doing. So, underweight girls were not likely to be trying to lose weight, unless they were in schools where underweight girls regularly reported trying to lose weight, according to Anna Mueller, at the University of Texas at Austin. So, let’s not blame all to skinny celebrities how teens perceive their weight.
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