Word: self-esteem
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...feel overweight, and encouraging them to adopt more healthy lifestyles to take more control of their self-image, vanity sizing panders to their insecurities. For women who are truly overweight, allowing them to believe that they’re smaller than they actually are might seem like a benevolent, “feel-good” practice on the part of clothing companies. Instead, it places undue emphasis on the number on the clothing tag rather than the vitality and self-esteem of the woman wearing the clothes...
...long time they've had a fair idea about who's prone to developing it. To some extent it runs in families, though it may be that some parents pass on to their children, genetically or by example, tendencies toward perfectionism, hypersensitivity and perseverance - traits that, combined with low self-esteem, appear to be preconditions for anorexia. Typically striking in adolescence, the disorder is more common in affluent countries and, within those, in wealthier families. For every boy who gets it, nine girls do. There have been attempts to explain anorexia in the same way most doctors account for depression...
...this phenomenon a cause - even the cause - of anorexia, or is it a consequence? Mondraty sees it like this: the personality traits and self-esteem problems mentioned earlier "are reasons that a girl might go on a diet," he says. Nearly all girls diet during their teenage years, but only about 1% of them develop anorexia. "What I'm guessing," Mondraty says, "is that when those with an underlying biological vulnerability lose a certain amount of weight, then something happens ... this [brain abnormality] clicks in. The significance of this is that it takes a bit of blame away from...
...during recess, a move that made national headlines. As in schools from South Carolina to Wyoming that have implemented similar bans recently, Attleboro administrators cite fears that children could get hurt and their parents might sue. According to some parents, another factor was concern that such games could hurt self-esteem if, say, one kid were always...
...assume, intelligent. Communists. And yet well off. RR: Doesn’t every comedian talk about how depressing their life is? TS: Yes, but my life has been wonderful. That’s how different I am. I am not the typical comedian. I suffer from high self-esteem. RR: You worked in an ice cream store and you suffered from high self-esteem.TS: Yes, because I thought it was great when I was working at this poor man’s Dairy Queen. RR: How can Harvard students boost their self-esteem? TS: I’m not sure what...