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第一篇 Weight Worries May Start Early for Slim Women
There is a grange of reasons why thin women think they’re too heavy, but the distorted body image may often have its roots in childhood, the results of a new study suggest.
Researchers foud that among more than 2,400 thin women they surveyed, nearly 10 percent thought they were too heavy. Experiences in childhood, including having an ill parent, or starting to drink or have sex at a particularly young age, were among the risk factors for habing a distorted body image.
According to the study authors , led by Dr. Susanne Kruger Kjaer of the danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, society’s“ideal”female body is moving toward an underweight physique Research suggests that many normal- weight wish to weigh less.
To investigate body image among thin women, the researchers gave questionnaires to 2,443 women ages 27 to 38 whose body mass index was at the low end of normal The women were asked about factors ranging from childhood experiences to current exercise habits.
Overall, almost 10 percent of the women thought they were too heavy. Those who reported certain“severe life events” in childhood or adolescence, such as having a parent e ill or having their educational hopes dashed, were more likely than others to have a distorted body image The same was true of women who started having sex or drinking alcohol when they were yo