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Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

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The Impact of Body Image on Physical Health

This chapter explores the detrimental effects of societal pressures on body image and how they can drive unhealthy behaviors, such as belly-sucking. It highlights the physical health consequences of these actions and advocates for increased awareness and change in perceptions of body image across all demographics.

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Speaker 2
Yeah, and it's true. And like there's good research to support those into relationships massively. It's a massive issue. And look, you know, we have such as a society, we're so judging of the body around body form, about body shape, that we see a lot of people trying to hide themselves. Like, you know, young women and men trying, or at any age trying to pull their bellies in to try and hide themselves. That creates the same thing. If you suck your stomach in, you create intra-abdominal pressure, you can't use your diaphragm effectively, you start loading up your pelvic floor, that whole system starts overworking. Your abdominal wall attaches to your ribcage. So the whole system is part of this. Yeah, and a key point, right, is what we said before about a back,
Speaker 1
it may start off in your back, but depending on what you then do and tighten and stop moving, it starts spreading. You get a secondary problem, a tertiary problem, and then what a fourth one of a tertiary is. You get all these knock-on effects. So if we look at sucking your belly in through the same lens, and I've done this, we all do it. women have had this for years. And I remember when I was like a skinny, rib showing teenager at like 13 or 14 feeling self-conscious about my body, men's health came out and suddenly you're seeing all these ripped guys with six packs and flat abs. And you think, oh God, that's what I need to be, like to be a man. Right? Yeah. So this is so widespread that I would say more than 50%, most people are probably sucking in their bellies at some point. And I think it's one of the most problematic behaviors. We see it all the time. Let's really hammer home this point,
Speaker 2
because people are doing it.

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