Watching skinny celebrities on TV ‘can damage women’s health’
Dr Aric Sigman claims that seeing women on screen who are underweight, but perceived as “normal”, can be harmful to girls and women. He says a biological mechanism which makes females become unhappy when they look at images of an abundance of underweight women has been identified.
The relationship between media and body image was previously treated as a psychological or cultural debate, but now it must be treated as a medical one, said Dr Sigman. “This is a medical and profound message. It is harmful to British girls and women.”
