The Research of Anne Becker Illustrates How Cultural Attitudes Toward

question 107

Multiple Choice

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.

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