In Their Cross-Cultural Study of Eating Disorders,Gupta and Colleagues (2001)found

question 103

Multiple Choice

In their cross-cultural study of eating disorders,Gupta and colleagues (2001) found that the drive for thinness and body dissatisfaction did not differ between Canadian and Indian women.However,there were cultural differences.What were they?

• A) differences in compensatory practices after bingeing, such as purging
• B) differences in the acceptability of eating disorders
• C) differences in the areas of the body most related to body satisfaction
• D) differences in the frequency of bingeing behaviour

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