Nutrition and Exercise >> Eating Concerns

General Information: Who Does not Worry about Weight?

Because everyone receives mass media and cultural messages, many people are uneasy about their eating habits and physical appearance. The discrepancies between how you are physically and how you think you should be can be very large and very painful unless you have a healthy amount of perspective and self-acceptance to counteract society's pressures. This means that you can be anywhere along the continuum from having eating concerns all the way to having an eating disorder.

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Last Modified: May 31, 2006