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Cooke, Kaz. "Chapter 6: You are not your buttocks ." Real Gorgeous: The truth  about Body and Beauty. N.p.: n.p., 1996. 201-227. Print. For women, eating behavior and body image is related to Self esteem. Girls are told two  things that change their the way they look at themselves. "You are  what you eat" and "you are what you look like" Not only does  this tell you that if you eat a lot that you will be big in size, but also  that if you are overweight or underweight or even normal body sized then  that is the person you are. You are fat. You are thin. The way children  look at themselves is heavily based on what they see on television and in  the media. But being thin does not mean you are happy and content with  yourself. You can also have body hatred and bad self-esteem. Towards the  end of the chapter it gears into How to like yourself. how to go from  "I'm so ugly" to I like the way I look." Here are some Body  image boosters: Stand in front of the mirror naked and describe yourself  out loud., then analyze yourself, if you don't like a part of yourself,  you must tell why. NEXT TIME. when you get undressed in front of a mirror, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> list positive things about your shape. Live happily in your body, this can <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> be through exercise. Fit and healthy people generally feel better about <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> themselves. And there so many more.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Gray, Heather M, and Samantha Phillips. Real Girl Real World. Toronto Canada : <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Publishers Group West, 1998. Print. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">This book has very interesting information on a girls body image how she perceives it and the really <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> important topic of anorexia. 90 to 95 percent of people with eating <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> disorders are female. Why do these disorders run mostly in girls? From a <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> very young age girls show more concern for their bodies than a boy might. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> seventeen year old girl wrote a poem and here are a few lines. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> "Where are all the girls who withered inside the cornucopia? a pile of <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> deflowered bodies, gray bones and crystal teeth shattered among the <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> breakfast dishes. Like a cold pasta, they've been left beneath the eyelids, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> where colors are calories. I love that line "Where colors are <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> calories." I've felt like that a couple of times. Where I am always <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> aware of what foods I eat and how much I eat a day and make sure that it <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> doesn't go over a certain number of calories. I lived in counting, but <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> lucky only for a few weeks.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Caldwell, Martha. Self-esteem in adolecent girls. N.d. MS. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Junior High is a difficult time for anybody. Ask any adult and they will confirm to you this fact. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Girls might e confident at eight for nine, a report found that 60 <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> percent of them are while 67 percent of boys are confident. Then at age <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> sixteen this number drops tremendously to 20 percent of girls remain <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> confident. This number especially drops because this is the harsh time <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> where a girl is becoming a women and she seeks role models. She may observe <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> from tv, books or magazines, though this gives a false sense of reality, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> that all a women is, is to nurture to care. In adolescent is also becomes <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> appealing to be considered pretty by boys. Boys affect a great deal of the <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> self-esteem in girls. Girls feel the need for their approval. Some might go <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> about this by using her sexuality and maybe one day opening her blouse <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> another button. Though this seems to be what they want, then gossip starts <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> floating exploiting her clothing. As this is what the girl thought they <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> wanted, it only caused her to be called negative names. Girls aren't the <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> only one's led by society, boys as well learn they must be strong, and that <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> this equals ideal.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Reasoner, Robert. " THE TRUE MEANING OF SELF-ESTEEM ." What is Self Esteem? National Associaltion for Self-esteem, 2010. Web. 13 Dec. 2010. <http://www.self-esteem-nase.org/what.php>. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">People quite often have a hard time simply defining what self-esteem is. It has been <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">referred to as just 'feeling good'. It's also been called egotism, arrogance. Even in dictionary <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> reference, it is both, 'respectful or favorable opinion of oneself' or 'vanity'. "Self Esteem is <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">whether or not a person lives up to certain fundamental human values. "Kids with healthy or <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">high self-esteem are loving and lovable, take responsibility for their action, they are self-motivated, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">and they take control of their lives.While a kid with low self esteem might go downhill as low self esteem has <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">been related to the following issues:violence, alcoholism, drug abuse, eating disorders, school dropouts, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">teen pregnancy, suicide, and low academic achievement.Some people have seen self-esteem as arrogance. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Well, worthiness prevents competence to turn to arrogance,and then competence prevents worthiness from <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">becoming narcissism. This is a healthy self esteem because this allows a person to earn their 'good feelings' and praise. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> There has been false research done that if you praise your child that is a method to raise self-esteem. Wrong. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">This gives them undeserved praise. High self-esteem is equal to good health so you can never have too much self-esteem.