Success, not size O, makes women want to eat less

摘要

Encouraging models to put on weight may not be enough to prevent the influence that media images have on rising rates of bulimia and anorexia nervosa. It turns out that images of successful people contribute to such illnesses, regardless of how thin they are.rnStudies have shown that media images contribute to the development of eating disorders. To understand how, psychologist Norman Li of Singapore Management University and colleagues showed portraits accompanied by characterrndescriptions to 841 volunteers in Austin, Texas.