Body Image and Eating Behaviour in Interethnic Adolescent Girls
| Autor: | Walker Bf, M.M. Locke, F.A. Cassim, O. Molefe, Alexander R. P. Walker |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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Rural Population Adolescent Urban Population Black People India Weight Gain Social class White People Body Mass Index South Africa 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Weight loss Surveys and Questionnaires Weight Loss Body Image medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Prejudice (legal term) White (horse) Binge eating Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Feeding Behavior Anthropometry medicine.disease Obesity 030227 psychiatry Black or African American Female Underweight medicine.symptom Psychology Demography |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the Royal Society of Health. 111:12-16 |
| ISSN: | 0264-0325 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/146642409111100105 |
| Popis: | REPORTS of major dissatisfaction among adoles cent girls over body shape and their associated eating behaviour, prompted determining anthropometric and questionnaire studies on series of rural and urban black, Indian, and white girls aged 14-19 years. Variables were concern over weight, desired weight loss, also practices regarding binge eating, fastmg, vomiting and laxative use. Black girls have low weight-for-age, yet experience more obesity than white girls; yet weight reduction, although desired, is seldom seriously attempted. Indian girls have low weight-for- age, principally for genetic, not social class, reasons; they also, even some underweight, desired weight reduction. White girls are also dissatisfied, although less acutely than girls in the US. The current attitudes of South African adolescent girls, apart from extremes, are unlikely to seriously prejudice their health. |
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