public figures, such as models and actresses, the diets everyone goes on, and then there is also the photo shop and photo editing that happens on a daily basis. Some effects of it are negative like bullying in schools and on social media and then eating disorders. There are some people who try to keep females positive about their image. Overall there needs to be something said about the way girls think they should look based on what other people think. The women that young girls look up to do not always
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Abstract: Research indicates that the nutritional knowledge of athletes is minimal. Dietary behaviors may hinder health status and athletic performance. The purpose of this study was to compare nutrition knowledge and attitudes of college athletes at a Southern university (N=190). Male and female athletes were surveyed from all sports. The study examined knowledge of current dietary recommendations, sources of nutrients, healthy food choices, and the relationship between diet and disease processes
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women. Anorexia is a disease that involves unusual eating habits and self-starvation. The people who are affected are mostly young women, but people of either gender can become anorexic at any age. The most common cases of anorexia are found in young females, athletes, and people portrayed in the media. There are many physical effects that an anorexic person will experience. Weak bones are a common negative effect which really hurts an athlete. Hair loss and skin discoloration are other effects
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is recommended that ageing athletes continue in exercising in the water such as surfing (along as it is in appropriate and safe conditions) as some may experience an increase in bone and muscle mass. Female athletes Eating Disorders Eating disorders in female athletes can have a huge impact in maintaining a healthy weight and well being. Eating disorders can result from a range of factors such as peer influence, media, ideal sporting image, etc. For a Female athlete to participate in surfing they
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Key Terms Anabolic steroids Compounds derived from testosterone that promote tissue growth and repair. Anabolic refers to processes in the body that covert simple substances into more complex compounds (Uretsky, 2006). Anorexia Athletica A disorder of compulsive exercising. People tend to be more obsessed with maintaining abnormally low body fat percentage than with body weight (Davidson & Porter, 2013). Blood doping The use of products that enhance the uptake, transport, or delivery of oxygen to
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Regarding the interactionist theory, these young girls are basing their identity, social relationships, and value as an athlete on how they believe society expects them to look and not based on the objective truth of what a healthy body image actually is (Birbeck & Drummond, 2006). While adolescent males experience struggles with body image and self-objectification as well
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Imane Rhaleb English 132-23 Mr. Scott Still 2 May 2013 Achieving Society’s Prescribed Definitions of Femininity and Masculinity: Is One Harder to Accomplish than the Other? In Marge Piercy’s “Barbie Doll” and Sharon Olds’ “Rite of Passage,” both authors discuss the roles that a female plays and the roles in that a male plays. “Barbie Doll” describes the implications and consequences of society’s definition of femininity and how the character was affected by it. Contrasting to that
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The Female Athlete (2009). The Olympic Textbook of Science and Sport, The Encyclopaedia of Sports Medicine An IOC Medical Commission Publication. Chapter 23 382 -397 Wiley- Blackwell , Chichester, UK Introduction Since women’s first involvement in the Olympic Games in 1900, great progress has been made in increasing the participation rates of women across most events. In 2000, women represented 44% of the competitors at the Sydney Summer Games, although this was not matched by coverage of women’s
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The first use of the term ‘Female Athlete Triad’ was in 1992. Since then a new term was developed to replace the Female Athlete Triad. Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S) was published as a consensus of the International Olympic Committee in 20141. The IOC concluded that the Female Athlete Triad is an outdated and a gender-specific term1.It has been found that male athletes also show signs of some of the components of the female athlete triad, such as the energy insufficiency and low bone
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susceptible to eating disorders. During the teenage years of people, this is the time of emotional and physical changes, academic pressures, and a greater degree of peer pressure. There are interpersonal factors that can make teenagers vulnerable to eating disorder such as history abuse. Studies have shown that there are a high number of people suffering with eating disorder who have been examined with emotional, physical, or sexual abuse. This leads teenagers to find eating disorders help them
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