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Body Image Affects Boys

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Summary The article Body-Image Pressure Increasingly Affects Boys by Jamie Santa Cruz it about how the perception of an ideal guy affects boy just as much as it affects girls. More recently boys are beginning to have a negative outlook on their bodies because of toys, movies and magazines. Depression, drinking, and drugs such as steroids are just some of the negative outcomes of what happens when men have a negative body image. Boys are worried more about muscle than worried about being skinny which is the total opposite for girls. Most boys perceive themselves as underweight therefore they take protein shakes and/or steroids to gain muscle. Depression, rage attacks, suicide, and heart muscle disease are just a couple of examples of what

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