Our society has changed since the last century, some people, mostly women and young teenage girls, look at themselves and feel that their specific body type is not right. Women and these adolescent girls have always been encouraged to achieve the ideal body, one that is thin and fit (Monro, Huon 85). ... The ideal female beauty has become the image of thinner, but women today are getting bigger, and the gap between the actual body size and the ideal image of a woman is widening (Dittmar, Halliwell, and Stirling 44). ... To help girls reduce internalization of the thin ideal, the intervention h...

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Weighing 85% or less than weight expected for their age and height. Existing in a state of denial regarding the dangers of low weight. ... Heather advised that she remembered always being "heavier than other children- when growing up, but that it did not bother her until she entered her early teenaged years. She reported that during this time her peer group, as well as her parents, became critical of her weight. ... As her early attempts to control her weight began to be noticed, she was rewarded with praise and admiration. ...

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In Salem, Massachusetts, a black slave woman and twelve teenage girls were caught dancing around a bubbling cauldron in the woods, despite the fact that dancing was not allowed by the Puritans. ... Fearing being hanged the girls blamed each other. ...

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• Grade Level: High School