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#646 - Scott Griffiths - Why Are So Many Men Unhappy With Their Bodies?

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The Disbelief of Men and Women in Body Fat

There is a degree of, I guess, disbelief that we have on varying scales about how we look and it's persistent. And folks are very self critical in this regard. You see your body in the mirror every single day. You are so much more familiar with it than anyone else, even a long time partner. But we do it all the time. It's not surprising, I think, that in studies of what men and women find ideally attractive in the opposite sex with respect to muscularity and body fat,. Men think that women want bodies that are far more muscular than what they actually want. Women think men want bodies that were far skinnier. When they're asked to select

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