Wakeup call for Society – girls as young as six are worried about their bodies

Researchers from Leeds Beckett University has carried out a study on the growing up girls and had asked 301 under-nines questions regarding their attitude to food and how happy they were with their bodies.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 7 May 2015.

It is shocking to learn that girls as young as six are going on diets and, even though they have just started primary school, the children are already unhappy with their bodies and are trying to lose weight.
Eating disorders and the way these girls worry about their weight when they should enjoy the most carefree part of their lives is a matter of concern.
These raises questions about the attitude of schools towards obesity and anorexia. The child measurement program is one such. It involves children being weighed and measured in school according to their BMI. This has been criticized by parents of children as young as four who have received letters telling them their child must go on a diet.

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