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| Facebook fat people |
Facebook is a craze, not a necessity. Now it seems, Facebook
followers may be falling flat on their face and fat bodies. According to a
report by The Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt in Maryland,
Facebook may be fueling the fire of Body and weight obsession.
The Center’s
survey found that a vast majority of Facebook users feel they are fat compared to
the pictures of their friends on Facebook.
“75 percent of Facebook users unhappy with body – 51 percent of respondents reported Facebook makes them more conscious about their body and weight”
Health industry experts believe it is detrimental when
internet venues like Facebook make it easy for people to spend hours staring,
commenting, criticizing and fantasizing about bodies. Eventually, this can compel
people to adopt unhealthy eating habit just to look thin like other Facebookies.
So, people forget about Facebook. It is better to log off
and get away from Facebook, take a walk or run around the block and that is
likely to do some good to your bodies.
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The Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt,
located in Baltimore, Maryland,
offers comprehensive, individualized care for children, adolescents and adults
with serious eating disorders including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa,
binge eating disorder and compulsive overeating. The Center, which has been a
national leader in evidenced-based treatment since 1989, provides highly
specialized individual, group, family, occupational, art and nutritional
therapies and offers a full continuum of care that is not found anywhere else
in the region.
Contact:
eatingdisorder.org
Phone: 410.938.5252
Physicians Pavilion North,
6535 North Charles Street, Suite 300
Baltimore, MD 21204
Physicians Pavilion North,
6535 North Charles Street, Suite 300
Baltimore, MD 21204
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References
eatingdisorder.org
