Observing your physique in entrance of the mirror reduces physique dissatisfaction in ladies with weight problems, in line with a research by the University (UGR) that highlights the significance of listening to the elements of the physique that trigger discomfort with a view to obtain the therapeutic success of any dietary therapy.
A group of researchers from the UGR has identified {that a} excessive share of the inhabitants finds their physique uncomfortable, which ends up in attainable behaviors which might be dangerous to well being with a view to modify their look.
It is then when the particular person experiences physique dissatisfaction that interferes with their each day life, a discomfort that happens extra in ladies, particularly in adolescents and younger individuals, as a result of social strain to which they’re subjected.
This concern for physique picture impacts the bodily, psychological and emotional well being of the wholesome inhabitants and, to a higher extent, of these with Eating Disorders (ED) and weight problems.
Scientists from the University of Granada, belonging to the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (Cimcyc), have studied the attentional mechanisms which might be on the base of this discomfort that overweight ladies really feel once they see their very own physique and tips on how to scale back it.
To perform this analysis, they’ve labored with a pattern of 16 ladies with weight problems and excessive physique dissatisfaction who had been supplied a complete of six psychological therapy periods lasting 45 minutes.
This publicity therapy allowed the contributors to look at their whole physique, because of a mirror with wings, together with the again, whereas they verbalized every little thing they thought and felt.
This experiment has included taking images of the contributors, full physique and in underwear, which they seen earlier than and after the therapy periods through which they adopted directions reminiscent of wanting on the complete physique, solely the elements that they like, or these that don’t, to review their eye actions.
Initially, the contributors didn’t take note of the directions and confirmed a bias of consideration in direction of these elements of the physique with which they had been most dissatisfied, particularly the stomach and the buttocks.
Although they had been requested to take a look at probably the most stunning elements of the physique, consideration was directed to these areas that triggered the best discomfort, at which level the pupils dilated, a sign of the good emotional worth in direction of these elements of the physique handled.
After the six therapy periods in entrance of the mirror, the sample adjustments and exhibits much less discomfort that additionally results in fewer signs of consuming conduct, low shallowness, melancholy and anxiousness.
The group of researchers has highlighted the affect of one of these therapy to scale back dissatisfaction coinciding with the celebration this Friday of the World Day of Action in opposition to Eating Disorders.
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