Pictures of muscular macho males and thin beautiful females fill magazines, television and the music business. ... Men are at the gym, striving for that toned body they think is the answer to all their problems. ... Throughout the 70's and 80's body images fell into the "toned look". ... Individuals suffering from Bulimia Nervosa consume large amounts of food and then take measures to rid the body of it. ... They keep trudging on toward that beautiful thin bronzed body that everyone says is the meaning of perfection and happiness. ...

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Those who suffer from anorexia often have a distorted view of their body shape and body weight. ... Yet despite it all, many women will put their bodies through many extremes in order to achieve this false image of the ideal body shape and weight. ... Washington 5 Athletics seem to play a large role in male eating disorders. ... In fact often times males encourage other males to engage in bad eating habits. ... Men often look to leading men, especially those in action roles, like Schwarzenegger, Stallone, and The Rock, as having the ideal male bodies. ...

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Basketball and Nutrition For an athlete to perform to his or her best ability, the body must be optimally fueled. ... The recommended intake for a basketball player is different for males and females. ... Physical side effects: • Cancer • Liver Damage • Feminizing effects in males (growth of breast tissue) • Male attributes in females (deepening of voice, excessive hair growth) • Enlarged clitoris. ... Anabolic steroids are manufactured or synthesized derivatives of the male hormone, testosterone. ... It is responsible for growth, muscular developmen...

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The media is a major factor that affects body image. ... Although the majority of those who suffer from eating disorders are female, males are becoming increasingly vulnerable. Males with eating disorders are less concerned with achieving smaller body proportions than they are with obtaining a muscular, athletic physique. This is consistent with the media portrayal of the ideal male body shape. The most common characteristic of males with eating disorders is excessive over-exercise. ...

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The enhancement in fertility deals with both males and females. When talking about a male's fertility you are basically talking about the amount of active sperm in a man's semen. ... The other factor of smell is body odor. Although there really isn"t any type of food you can eat to eliminate body odor, you can use a little lemon juice when washing your hands and body. ... Then leads to something in the general area of using the food to flavor different parts of the body and then tasting these different body parts. ...

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Males are considered obese when they are 5% or more over the average body fat percentage. Females are allowed more body fat than males because of the fat needed for childbirth. ... The fat that obesity is linked with hits a person in four main areas; the upper body, the viscera, the subcutaneous, and the lower body. ... Then next place for storing fat in the body is the Upper Body, which is very similar to the Viscera. The Lower Body is the last place to store fat, which includes all of ones body beneath the stomach. ...

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In the late twentieth century people steered away from the gracious full-bodied image that symbolized beauty and adopted an opposite viewpoint that would be known as today's symbol for the perfect body type. ... Boys want to look just as "buff" as the power dominating male figures portrayed throughout the media (Earp, J., Jhally, S., Katz J., 2002). ... Which, of course, manifests the initial motivational drive for control of their body weight. ... This now has become more than just a need to fit in with society's norm of an ideal body type. ... Other corresponding health issues begi...

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Balanchine is created with creating the concept of the ideal ballet body. ... Male dancers are known to be strong, but the focus for them is not on bulking up. They also need to have a slim line to their bodies, as a result it is often not possible for a male dancer to lift or throw a heavier ballerina. ... This forces you to compare your body to theirs, and if you don't look like the other dancers it puts tremendous pressure on you to fix your body in some way. ... Plus everyone has their own opinion about having the perfect body. ...

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Eating habits of a male athlete in particular are very irregular. ... With eating these small snacks between meals or exercise, it fills the macronutrient levels for a male athlete, the micronutrient levels end up being considerably low. ... To fill this micronutrient level, male athletes need to eat and drink more dairy products as snacks, to fill their daily value of micronutrients. ... Resting energy expenditure is needed to maintain body weight. ... Fats can be used as a fuel and are also included in a nutritious body. ...

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Physiological factors affect the body's need and desire for food. ... Appetite, on the other hand, is the desire for food even when the body is not hungry. ... Phil is male and therefore he is required to have higher protein intake in his diet. ... Males require more kilojoules than females as they are larger in size, have a higher BMI rate and use more energy. ... Many factors determine and individual's body size, including how much they eat, their body frame, height and how much exercise they do. ...

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All over the world, but especially in America, males and females alike strive each day to achieve this thinness that has taken on such an appeal. ... Anorexia Nervosa, which is characterized by self starvation to avoid obesity, and Bulimia Nervosa, which results when a person will binge on large amounts of food and then use self-induced vomiting or diuretics to rid their body if the food, are two major eating disorders ("Eating" 1). ... "Some researchers believe that anorexia and bulimia are caused by chemical imbalances in the brain; one study linked bulimia to deprivation of tryptophan, an...

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Weighing nearly four hundred pounds certainly takes a toll on her body. ... Maintaining a healthy diet can affect a person's body more than exercising. ... Taking in too many calories a day is doing nothing but abusing the human body. ... Even though these images are most likely photo shopped, males believe that is what their girlfriend or wife will on day look like. It is often hard for an obese male or female to find a spouse. ...

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However, 69% of girls in one study said that magazine models influence their idea of the perfect body shape, and the acceptance of this unrealistic body type creates an impractical standard for the majority of women. 1. ... For instance, most male role models in the media are strong, smart, and have a good sense of character, while women in the media are perceived as being weak and thin, submissive to men and highly sexualized. ... Further, reading fashion magazines is significantly related to a woman's drive for thinness and her dissatisfaction with her body, although magazine reading...

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In the early 1900s, it wasn't uncommon for female athletes to be rejected from sports or events like the Olympic Games because it was thought to be too stressful on the female body. ... Women, who engage in high caliber sports such as gymnastics, figure skating or ballet are exposed to the pressure of having a low body weight or leanness. ... When Title IX came about in 1972, it mandated equal access for sport participation for males and females. ... Suffering from osteoporosis is unhealthy and overworking your body only results in negative effects. ... In one's teen years, something...

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It seemed to me that the older I get, the more obsessed people seemed about their bodies. ... Do to the lack of fat in her body, her menstrual cycle is likely to have ceased. ... Only one of every 10 anorexia nervosa patients are male. ... The brain is developing while the body grows. ... Questions will be asked about what she thinks of her body, usually with negative results. ...

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BODY A. ... Too much protein, such as the animal protein found in both meat and dairy products, actually causes the body to lose calcium. ... Because crowding creates a prime atmosphere for disease, animals on factory farms are fed and sprayed with huge amount of pesticides and antibiotics, which remain in their bodies and are passed on to the people who eat them. ... Calves raised for veal "the male offspring of cows "are the most cruelly confined and deprived of all factory animals. ...

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Everyone, male and female, want to lose weight to and have bodies like the pop stars. ... The science behind the Atkins diet is that carbohydrates are turned into body fat when there is an increase of insulin. ... Glucagons are the hormones that cause the body to burn fat and remove cholesterol from the arteries. ... Arguments on the other side say that ketosis is not a dangerous state for the body to be in. When carb intake is less that 40 grams per day the body burns fat instead of glucose for energy. ...

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"Women today are afraid to eat . . . afraid their bodies will be unacceptable in a society obsessed by thinness. ... Hence, meat is classified as a male food. ... This is why fast food companies direct their ads to the male audience. ...

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About 17 percent of the study participants were obese, defined as having a body mass index over the 95th percentile for age and gender. The proportion of children who were obese varied by gender and ethnicity from 14 percent in white males, to 23 percent in black females. ...

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(Mintz, 120) We are centered on exercise and maintaining the "perfect" body structure. This leads to eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia, which are more common in females than in males. ...

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