The inaccurate link between body ideals and health | Nancy N. Chen

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Health & Fitness, Fitness, Shoshana Ungerleider, Medicine, How To Be Healthier, Ted Shoshana, Ted Talks Health

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🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Global obesity rates are on the rise, but body shaming campaigns are doing more harm than good, says medical anthropologist Nancy N. Chen. Reflecting on how the cultural histories of body ideals have changed over time, she offers a new way to view ourselves and our health by enhancing body diversity to close the gap between what's ideal and what's real.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:07.5	This is Ted Health.
0:08.5	I'm your host, Dr. Shoshana Ungerleiter.
0:13.4	We live in a media-conscious world, and everywhere you look, slim models and actresses are front
0:18.6	and center.
0:19.6	The Wafelike Female Body Ideal emerged in the 1970s, and since then, the societal view
0:25.0	of a thin frame has been equated with beauty and fitness, and the consequences like eating
0:29.7	disorders and poor self-esteem for people of all ages have been dire.
0:34.2	In her 2021 Ted Salon talk, medical anthropologist Nancy N. Chen encourages all of us to rethink
0:41.2	this.
0:42.2	Listen in as she explains why our external appearance is the wrong place to look for true health
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1:10.7	As visual beings, we rely on images to perceive the world and make meaning.
1:16.3	Imagine I ask you to draw a human body.
1:19.6	How would you to pick this body?
1:22.4	Many ideals reflect social meanings about how we dwell in spaces, both physical and cultural.
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