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Media consumption and bodily concerns in men explored
Published in Food and Drug Law Weekly, March 11th, 2005
According to recent research published in the journal Sex Roles, "Media messages directed toward men increasingly promote the hypermuscular male body, an ideal impossible for most men to achieve. In this study we investigated the association between media consumption and bodily concerns in a sample of 89 college men. Reading male-directed magazines was associated with concerns about muscularity and general fitness, beauty product use, and dietary supplement use to build muscle."
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