The research of Anne Becker illustrates how cultural attitudes toward beauty affect eating behaviors (Becker, Burwell, Herzog, Hamburg, & Gilman, 2002). What did Anne Becker find??
a. ?With the introduction of American television, adolescent girls in Fiji reported higher rates of dieting.
b. ?Home-schooled American teens with no access to television reported less of a desire to diet than their public school counterparts.
c. ?In regions of Africa once plagued by famine, food surplus levels positively correlate with the number of women reporting the need to diet.
d. ?Adolescent German girls were three times as likely to go on diets after visiting America while vacationing with their families.
ANSWER:
a
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