So SOME of Us Are Satisfied With Our Bodies!
Hear, hear! Twelve percent of middle-aged women are satisfied with their bodies, according to a new study . I guess that's better than 0 percent. But where are all the rest of us? And here's the clincher. We have to work really, really hard to keep that satisfaction going. "This minority of midlife women who report being satisfied with their body size appears to exert considerable effort to achieve and maintain this satisfaction," reports newswise.com. And we are not immune to "dissatisfaction with other aspects of (our) physical appearance, especially those aspects affected by aging, the Web site quotes Cynthia Bulik, PhD, corresponding author of the study. “Of course the fact that so few women are satisfied with their body size is concerning,” Cristin Runfola, PhD, first author of the study, told newswise.com. “But we were interested in how some women remain happy with their size and shape, given ubiquitous social pressures to retain a youthful thin ap...