编辑“身體意象”（章节）

==身體意象與體重==
減肥意欲與身體意象欠佳有密切關係，女性比男性更想減肥，研究報告指出渴望減肥的人士的身體意象沒有因不同性別而異<ref>{{cite journal |author=Kashubeck-West S, Mintz LB, Weigold I |title=Separating the Effects of Gender and Weight-Loss Desire on Body Satisfaction and Disordered Eating Behavior |journal=Sex Roles |volume=53 |issue=7-8, |pages=505–518 |doi=10.1007/s11199-005-7138-4 |url=http://www.springerlink.com/content/y07h74u11ug0x245/ |date=October 2005 }}{{Dead link|date=2020年3月 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>。1997年後的研究表明約64％美國成年人超重，女性和男性不滿率應分別高於56％和40％，因為儘管有些沒有過重的人仍然認為自己是過重，但更多應該不滿意自己身體的人對身體表示滿意<ref>{{cite web|title=Obesity Statistics: U.S. Obesity Trends |url=http://www.naaso.org/statistics/obesity_trends.asp |publisher=North American Association for the Study of Obesity |accessdate=2008-03-08 |year=2006 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060206185213/http://www.naaso.org/statistics/obesity_trends.asp |archivedate=2006-02-06 }}</ref>。換句話說，社會的減肥壓力對整體社會利多於弊，雖然壓力不利毋需減肥的人，但與肥胖相關的健康和社會問題在沒有社會壓力的情況下將變得更加嚴重<ref>{{cite web|title = Statistics Related to Overweight and Obesity|url = http://www.win.niddk.nih.gov/statistics/|publisher = CDC|year = 2006|accessdate = 2009-01-23|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090130040952/http://win.niddk.nih.gov/statistics/|archive-date = 2009-01-30|dead-url = yes}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url = http://epirev.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/mxm007v1|title = The obesity epidemic in the United States—gender, age, socioeconomic, racial/ethnic, and geographic characteristics: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis|last1 = Wang|first1 = Youfa|last2 = Beydoun|first2 = May A|journal = Epidemiologic Reviews|year = 2007|doi = 10.1093/epirev/mxm007|pmid = 17510091|volume = 29|pages = 6–28|access-date = 2011-03-03|archive-date = 2010-08-01|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100801060539/http://epirev.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/mxm007v1}}</ref>。