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- Title: Weight Loss and Muscle Building Content in Popular Magazines Oriented Toward Women and Men.
- Author : North American Journal of Psychology
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 198 KB
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Anderson and DiDomenico (1992) reported that the content of magazines for women and men held more weight loss articles and advertisements than weight gain articles and advertisements. In fact, the ratio of 10:1 weight loss material to weight gain material mirrored the incidence of women to men diagnosed with eating disorders. The media landscape has changed over the past 15 years, with more popular magazines oriented toward men being created. The present study re-evaluated the magazine content of present magazines marketed to women and men. The results indicate that weight loss content still is more prevalent than weight gain content overall, though, in men's magazines, the weight gain content is more prevalent than weight loss content. The implications of these findings are discussed. Eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, are predominantly found in women (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2000). Generally, the ratio of diagnosed women to diagnosed men is about 10:1 (Fichter & Krenn, 2003). One reason for this discrepancy is the importance that modern women have placed on achieving the social ideal of thinness, to the point that most women are dissatisfied with their appearance as they feel they need to lose weight (Cash, Ancis, & Strachan, 1997).
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