Dissatisfaction is inevitable for many men and women due to extreme slim standards. The 1997 Psychology Today Body Image Survey shows there's more discontent with the shape of our bodies then ever before. Fifty-six percent of women being questioned are dissatisfied with their overall appearance. Their self-disparagement is specifically directed toward their abdomens, body weights, hips, and muscle tone. Men show escalating dissatisfaction with their abdomens, weight, muscle tone, overall appearance, and chest. The overwhelming majority of women "89percent "want to lose weight; by contrast, 22 percent of the men who say they are dissatisfied with their bodies want to gain weight. Slim body image becomes poisoning in prospective of health hazards. David Garner, Ph.D., the director of the Toledo Center for Eating Disorders, has been researching and treating eating disorders for 20 years, heading one of the earliest studies linking them to changes in cultural expectations for thinness. Considerable research indicates that anorexia and bulimia are outgrowths of a negative body image and, further, that today's epidemic increase in eating disorders is related to the intense pressure put on women to conform to ultra slender role models of feminine beauty. Vomiting and laxative abuse seem to be increasingly accepted as "normal- methods of weight control. A sizable proportion of respondents say they have resorted to extreme and dangerous weight-control methods in the last year: 13 percent of women and 4 percent say they induce vomiting; more than a third of each of these groups vomits once a week or more. .
There is another strong perception that governs perfect world we live in today: we have to look toned and muscular. The magazines sort of force this body image on everybody of what it means to be physically fit person, whether we want to admit it or not, this image is what we want to look like.
