Body dissatisfaction is known to be correlated with, and predictive of, physical and mental health problems including binge eating, emotional eating, stress, low self-esteem, depression, and use of unhealthy weight control behaviours. High levels of talking about weight and being fat, \u2018fat talk\u2019, is known to be a good indicator of body dissatisfaction.<\/p>\n In order to see if the impact of \u2018fat talk\u2019 and other aspects of body image such as ageing, \u2018old talk\u2019, was the same throughout women\u2019s lives, researchers from Trinity University and University of the West of England surveyed almost 1000 women, whose ages ranged from 18 to 87.<\/p>\n The results showed\u00a0 that both \u2018fat talk\u2019 and \u2018old talk\u2019 occurred throughout women\u2019s lives, but in general women talked less about age and getting older than they did about their concerns with weight. \u2018Fat talk\u2019 appeared to be a younger woman\u2019s topic and became less frequent with age, while \u2018old talk\u2019 increased.<\/p>\n Women who reported higher levels of \u2018fat talk\u2019 and \u2018old talk\u2019 also tended to have a more negative body image. Dr. Carolyn Black Becker, who led this study, noted, \u201cUntil now, most research has focused on the negative effects of the thin-ideal and speech, such as \u2018fat talk\u2019, in younger women, but we need to remember that the thin-ideal is also a young-ideal which, as our results show, becomes increasingly important to negative body image as women age.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the BioMed press release via AlphaGalileo: Similar to talking about being fat, talking about being old is an important an indicator of body dissatisfaction, shows research in BioMed Central\u2019s… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[321,5,60],"tags":[283,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11021"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11145,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11021\/revisions\/11145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"mirror,](\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/mirror_aging.jpg\")
Similar to talking about being fat, talking about being old is an important an indicator of body dissatisfaction<\/strong>, shows research in BioMed Central\u2019s open access journal Journal of Eating Disorders<\/em>.<\/p>\n