Word: diets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This desire for perfection extends to physical appearance, says Heatherton. Although men are not impervious to the diet mentality, society's "emphasis on physical appearance" is stronger for women than for men. Society's conception of the ideal female body is unrealistic, and college women undergoing natural physiological changes often feel trapped by their own biology, he says...
Harvard's fattening food is not the only culprit, say other students. They say the college environment fosters an overwhelming group pressure to diet or to engage in abnormal eating behaviors...
...eating out a lot instead of in the dining hall because I don't want people watching what I'm eating and I don't want want to notice what other people are eating, especially if they're trying to diet," says a student suffering from bulimia...
...slight rise in eating disorders at Harvard may be explained by the overwhelming diet mentality of our time, Heatherton says...
...number of women trying to diet increased, so the number of women that fail also increased," he says...