名稱：99 Body Project Against Super Skinny
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[00:04.02]There is nothing new about TV
[00:06.83]and fashion magazines
[00:08.29]giving girls unhealthy ideas
[00:10.63]about how thin they need to be
[00:12.61]in order to be considered beautiful.
[00:14.64]What is surprising
[00:16.24]is the method psychologists
[00:17.82]at the University of Texas
[00:19.79]have come up with to keep girls
[00:21.65]from developing eating disorders.
[00:23.84]Their main weapon against super skinny
[00:26.23](role) models: a brand of civil disobedience
[00:30.38]dubbed “body activism.”
[00:32.24]Since 2001, more than 1 000 high school
[00:36.29]and college students in the US
[00:38.23]have participated in the Body Project,
[00:40.65]which works by getting girls to understand
[00:43.92]how they have been buying into the notion
[00:45.70]that you have to be thin
[00:47.40]to be happy or successful.
[00:48.99]After critiquing the so-called thin ideal
[00:51.86]by writing essays
[00:53.42]and role-playing with their peers,
[00:55.03]participants are directed
[00:56.96]to come up with and execute small,
[00:59.02]nonviolent acts.
[01:00.52]They include slipping notes saying
[01:03.31]“Love your body the way it is”
[01:05.31]into dieting books at stores
[01:07.51]like Borders
[01:08.53]and writing letters to Mattel,
[01:10.62]makers of the impossibly proportioned Barbie doll.
[01:13.82]According to a study
[01:15.38]in the latest issue of
[01:16.59]the Journal of Consulting
[01:18.17]and Clinical Psychology,
[01:19.75]the risk of developing eating disorders
[01:22.15]was reduced 61% among
[01:24.02]Body Project participants.
[01:25.70]And they continued to exhibit
[01:28.45]positive body-image attitudes
[01:30.01]as long as three years
[01:31.87]after completing the program,
[01:33.84]which consists of four one-hour sessions.
[01:36.72]Such lasting effects may be
[01:39.47]due to girls' realizing
[01:41.10]not only how they were being influenced
[01:43.89]but also who was benefiting
[01:45.56]from the societal pressure
[01:47.25]to be thin.
[01:48.30]“These people who promote the perfect body
[01:50.44]really don't care about you at all,”
[01:51.87]says Kelsey Hertel,
[01:53.79]a high school junior
[01:55.46]and Body Project veteran in Eugene, Oregon.
[01:57.46]“They purposefully make you
[01:59.94]feel like less of a person
[02:01.41]so you'll buy their stuff
[02:02.91]and they'll make money.”