Why do so many women have an unrealistic body image?
The reasons for this may stem from both strong sociocultural pressures to achieve the ideal body size and shape, which is unattainable for most women, and lowered self-esteem. Your level of self-esteem is related to your evaluation of a number of personal attributes – physical abilities, family role as well as body image. Undue emphasis is often placed on body image. Women tend to disregard their successes in all other areas and have low self-esteem because their body is not the ideal shape. Our society is partly responsible for this in that looks, specially “leanness” is highly valued and “fatness” is stigmatized. Why is Dieting Dangerous? The desire to achieve an “ideal body” may lead to excessive and dangerous dieting. The person may get caught in an “on again — off again” diet trap, where weight and self esteem go up and down like a yo-yo. For some people, this relentless pursuit of thinness becomes more extreme and leads to anorexia nervosa or bulimia. Anorexia nervosa is an emot
