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Simran Fabiani

Body Image, Media, and Eating Disorders -- Derenne and Beresin 30 (3): 257 -- Acad Psyc... - 0 views

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ideal body type image

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  • the standard of female beauty often has been unrealistic and difficult to attain.
  • Women are told that they can and should "have it all."
  • Though it is highly unlikely for a rail-thin woman to have natural DD-cup size breasts, toy manufacturers set this expectation by developing and marketing the Barbie doll, whose measurements are physiologically impossible
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  • women are faced with similarly unrealistic expectations every time they open a fashion magazine.
Harshil Asnani

Obesity on the rise in India, says Lancet - 0 views

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obesity india rise

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  • said emerging economies such as India, Brazil, China, Russia should take immediate steps to reverse the rising trend of various non-communicable diseases such as obesity.
  • India (obesity rates for women rose from 10.6 per cent to 12.6 per cent between 1998-99 and 2005-06).
Simran Fabiani

Bulimia nervosa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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bulimia

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  • Television, magazines and all forms of advertisement have left men and women obsessed with how they look and feel about themselves
Mihikaa Naik

Mozart's Legacy: Early music lessons may help children later in life - 0 views

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mozart effect music children life

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  • music instruction stimulates general intelligence.
  • Kindermusik is an early childhood program that introduces children as young as 1 to music, with the intent of stimulating a variety of abilities.
  • music and math relationship
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  • interact with other kids, and learn to appreciate music, hopefully stimulate the brain…
  • coordination and movement, with social skills, and it's some one-on-one time with your child
  • strong foundation for language development.
  • music instruction has much longer-term benefits than listening to music
  • can learn a lot about how music works just by hearing it
  • you're an adult, don't count on a piece of music to work magic on your brain.
  • teachers who play Mozart to their students in the hopes their test scores will improve. "And for a lot of students it's not going to work simply because Mozart is weird to them. They're not used to it. They don't like it, and so nobody performs well under stress."
Sophie Masse

French retirement age change to 62 becomes law | World news | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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French retirement age raised

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  • retirement at 60 was a cornerstone of France's social security system
  • French people are living longer
  • 62 became law in France
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  • want to claim full pension benefits must now wait until age 67 instead of 65.
Simran Fabiani

The Psychology Behind Anorexia Nervosa - 0 views

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psychology anorexia

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  • Anorexics see themselves as obese no matter how much they weigh or how thin they look in the mirror.
  • This obsession or focus on constant monitoring of calories and weighing themselves helps them block out unwanted feelings and emotions. So it can be seen as a symptom of possible mental health problems, especially around self-esteem or what I prefer to refer to as self-acceptance.
Simran Fabiani

Eating Disorders and the Media | Media Influence on Eating Disorders | Anorexia | Bulim... - 0 views

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media tv magazines

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  • Okay, so we all want to hear how Calvin Klein is the culprit and that the emaciated waif look has caused women to tale-spin into the world of Eating Disorders. While the images of child-like women has obviously contributed to an increased obsession to be thin, and we can't deny the media influence on eating disorders, there's a lot more to it than that.
  • Images on T.V. spend countless hours telling us to lose weight, be thin and beautiful, buy more stuff because people will like us and we'll be better people for it. Programming on the tube rarely depicts men and women with "average" body-types or crappy clothes, ingraining in the back of all our minds that this is the type of life we want. O
  • characters are typically portrayed as lazy
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  • while thin women and pumped-up men are the successful, popular, sexy and powerful ones. How can we tell our children that it's what's inside that counts, when the media continuously contradicts this message?
  • Super models in all the popular magazines have continued to get thinner and thinner.
  • Modeling agencies have been reported to actively pursue Anorexic models.
  • he average woman model weighs up to 25% less
  • han the typical woman and maintains a weight at about 15 to 20 percent below what is considered healthy for her age and height.
  • By far, these body types and images are not the norm and unobtainable
  • Diet advertisements are another problem.
  • hese images are fake.
  • the ideal body" combined with the diet industry's drive to make more money, creates a never-ending cycle of ad upon ad that try to convince us
  • Pop-culture's imposed definition of
  • Barbie-type dolls have often been blamed on playing a role in the development of body-image problems and Eating Disorders.
  • Not only do these dolls have fictionally proportioned, small body sizes, but they lean towards escalating the belief that materialistic possessions, beauty and thinness equate happiness.
  • Barbie has more accessories available to purchase than can be believed, including Ken, her attractive boyfriend.
  • personally do NOT believe every girl that has a Barbie-type doll is at risk of disordered eating,
  • We need to remind ourselves and each other constantly (especially children) that
  • With an increased population of children who spend a lot of time in front of television, there are more of them coming up with a superficial sense of who they are.
  • we are continually exposed to the notion that losing weight will make us happier and it will be through "THIS diet plan".
  • if you lose weight, your life will be good."
  • These images may not help, and for those already open to the possibility of negative coping mechanisms and/or mental illness, the media may play a small contributing role -- but ultimately, if a young man or woman's life situation, environment, and/or genetics leave them open to an Eating Disorder (or alcoholism, drug abuse, depression, OCD, etc.), they will still end up in the same place regardless of television or magazines.
  • it helps to perpetuate an ideal of materialism, beauty, and being thin as important elements to happiness in one's life.
Sophie Masse

France Moves to Raise Minimum Age of Retirement - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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French minimum retirement age raised

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  • increase of the minimum retirement age to 62 from 60
  • “It’s about preserving the pension system for our children.”
  • At 60, France’s retirement age is one of the lowest in Europe.
Sophie Masse

France Crippled by Nationwide Strike Over Retirement Age - 0 views

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Strike France retirement

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  • Strike
  • Hundreds of thousands of French protesters
  • 24-hour strike
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  • 500,000 people marched in more than 240 demonstrations in Paris and around the country.
  • France has one of the lowest retirement ages in the developed world.
  • will cause the administration to back down
  • current $44 billion to $138 billion
  • "This is a done deal and the French know it
  • raising the retirement age two years is actually a small thing."
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      good info about strikes
Sophie Masse

TODAYonline | World | France's pension reform becomes law - 0 views

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France retirement age law

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  • raises the retirement age has been signed into law by President Nicolas Sarkozy
  • 70 per cent of French people disapproved of the pension
  • eight times since early September
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  • fuel shortages
Sophie Masse

France to raise retirement age to 62, Massive protests - Ars Technica OpenForum - 0 views

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France retirement age raised opinions

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      People's opinion! not reliable but useful
Harshil Asnani

Obesity statistics for India show rising obesity among kids, obese kids and adults in I... - 0 views

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obesity india statistics

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  • As many as 30 million Indians are overweight, and obesity continues rise, says statistics revealed by the National Family Health Survey (NFHS).
  • Around 20 per cent of school-going children are overweight,
  • Overweight or obesity is the leading cause of type 2 diabetes
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  • hypertension, osteoarthritis, various types of cancers in women like breast cancer and uterus cancer, menstrual disorder and infertility and many more diseases, according to experts.
  • Of the diabetic population in New Delhi already aware of their condition
krpa savlani

Zodiac Killer - Suspect Arthur Lee Allen - 0 views

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zodiac killer suspect ArthurLeeAllen

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  • Allen said that he had "neglected to inform the Vallejo officer who had talked to him about being seen by his neighbor at the time he was questioned.
  • showing too much interest in small children
  • did have and owned two handguns, one revolver and the other some type of automatic
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  • he had left the Corvair parked at the Richfield Service station at Nebraska
  • Arthur Allen was employed at this service station as an attendant
Mihikaa Naik

Spatial intelligence and the 'Mozart effect': Does listening to Mozart make you smarter? - 0 views

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mozart effect true false intellegence

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  • widely believed to be an established fact
  • ntelligent – it is intricate, skillful, precise and sophisticated
  • rain activity becoming
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  • coordinated or synchronized
  • Francis Rauscher and her colleagues published a stud
  • visualise folding and cutting a piece of paper
  • Mozart effect’ (as the Press called it
  • quickly captivated the public imagination
  • many examples of single scientific studies that initially catch he public imagination and get a lot of press coverage, but are subsequently proved to be invalid or relatively insignificant.
  • effect of Mozart on cognitive performance has been found
  • specific type of spatial task
  • no way can be considered to be a test of general intelligence
  • Nature in 1993
  • . Listening to Mozart has been shown to have no effect on working memory performance
  • therefore misleading to understand the Mozart effect
  • The effect is likely to be due to arousal or mood, not changes in cognition
  • Differences
  • in mood have been shown to have an effect on performance
  • positive mood
  • esearch provide no evidence that the improvement differ
  • other engaging stimuli that are equally pleasing to participants
  • authors’ views on their own study
  • over-reaction in the popular press
  • jumping to conclusions
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