Men are more dissatisfied with their appearance than women

April 04, 2017, 20:25

Mod­ern men are con­cerned about their appear­ance no less than the beau­ti­ful half of soci­ety.

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This is espe­cial­ly true of the physique. Sci­en­tists even came up with a name for a new phe­nom­e­non, des­ig­nat­ed as “mus­cle dys­mor­phism.” Every year more and more men suf­fer from this diag­no­sis. The stronger sex is dis­sat­is­fied with their appear­ance, and many men are lit­er­al­ly obsessed with build­ing mus­cle mass and mus­cles as quick­ly as pos­si­ble. Dis­sat­is­fac­tion with your body even­tu­al­ly devel­ops into a psy­cho­log­i­cal prob­lem, experts say.

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A few years ago, men were not so obsessed with their appear­ance and paid more atten­tion to health. Now they are con­cerned about how to look more beau­ti­ful and attrac­tive, no less than the weak­er sex.

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Experts attribute this to the fact that many rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the stronger sex can­not accept their body and are unhap­py with their fig­ure. To look even more attrac­tive, they are ready to take steroids and use oth­er meth­ods to achieve the desired result.

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But such dras­tic mea­sures threat­en ulti­mate­ly with health prob­lems. Espe­cial­ly if star­va­tion is also con­nect­ed to all oth­er efforts to change your body.

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