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Sources for Be a Good Role Model: Girls and Body Image

1 Florida State University. FSU Study Finds Body Image Stereotypes May Begin in the Highchair, last referenced 10/23/2006.

2 National Association of Social Workers. Adolescent Girls and Body Image, last referenced 10/23/2006.

3 American Academy of Pediatrics. Media Education Offers Help on Children's Body Image Problems, last referenced 10/23/2006.

4 Abramovitz, BA and Birch, LL. 2000. Five-year-old girls' ideas about dieting are predicted by their mothers' dieting. Journal of the American Dietetic Association 100(10): 1157-1163.

5 PreventDisease.com. Young Girls Start Eating Disorders Early, last referenced 10/23/2006.

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Created on 10/26/06