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  • Essay / Negative Effects of Male Body Image - 815

    The reported figures regarding men and eating disorders, as significant as they are, may be far from accurate. Male body dissatisfaction is unlikely to be reported because it is perceived as a female concern. If the media views body imagery as a female concern, then a man admitting to an eating disorder must find it truly detrimental to his masculinity. Awareness campaigns aimed at combatting eating disorders have had a distinctly female bias. Although now equally important, promoting understanding is that these issues concern men just as much. There is a bias because the majority of people who seek treatment for eating disorders are actually women. What is really concerning is that although there is a smaller percentage of men with eating disorders, the prognosis is not as promising for men as it is for men..