Body sense: towards a sensible approach to health and body image

Abstract

Body sense is a website intended as a platform for young women to help them identify and respond to the conditions in their lives that contribute to their confused body images, eating disorders and related problems of obesity and depression. It seeks to send out the message that It is important to resist myths about obesity, thinness or the perfect body that the market sells the in order to embrace a healthy lifestyle and a positive body image.