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Probing Question: Do boys or girls suffer more from poor body image?

7/27/10

Picture a crowded beach at the height of summer. Boys and girls of all shapes and sizes cavort in the waves and lounge on beach towels. It's the skin-baring season—and that can exacerbate body image woes for many teens. Who do you think is most unhappy with their bodies? Underweight or overweight? Girls or boys?

Role Models

9/1/00

Ndidi Moses touches the cover of Cosmopolitan. The woman under the title is thin and white, with strawberry-blonde hair and azure eyes. She wears a come-hither look and a white lace dress that leaves her torso almost bare. "That dress is beautiful," Moses says, running her fingers across the page. "You couldn't wear it out, but for a fashion show . . . I wonder if that's her real body."

A Laissez-faire Approach to Brussel Sprouts

6/1/94

Bchild sits slumped in a chair at the dinner table, scowling at a plate of food. What parents do next, says Leann Birch, could mean the difference between that child having a healthy relationship with food or growing up to be a chronic dieter. And what Birch suggests they should do may be hard for the parents to swallow.

Probing Question: Do boys or girls suffer more from poor body image?

7/27/10

Picture a crowded beach at the height of summer. Boys and girls of all shapes and sizes cavort in the waves and lounge on beach towels. It's the skin-baring season—and that can exacerbate body image woes for many teens. Who do you think is most unhappy with their bodies? Underweight or overweight? Girls or boys?

Role Models

9/1/00

Ndidi Moses touches the cover of Cosmopolitan. The woman under the title is thin and white, with strawberry-blonde hair and azure eyes. She wears a come-hither look and a white lace dress that leaves her torso almost bare. "That dress is beautiful," Moses says, running her fingers across the page. "You couldn't wear it out, but for a fashion show . . . I wonder if that's her real body."

A Laissez-faire Approach to Brussel Sprouts

6/1/94

Bchild sits slumped in a chair at the dinner table, scowling at a plate of food. What parents do next, says Leann Birch, could mean the difference between that child having a healthy relationship with food or growing up to be a chronic dieter. And what Birch suggests they should do may be hard for the parents to swallow.