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The Female Competition Stress Test: Effects on Disordered Eating Beyond Adolescence - Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology

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A common belief is that social pressure for thinness is directly responsible for both a desire for a thin physique in women as well as its pathological expression in eating disorders. Our understanding of such behavior may be illuminated by an evolutionary perspective that sees it as not just...

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From psypost.org

Female competition stress linked to disordered eating across the lifespan

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Researchers found that while women's stress related to competition over social status and male attention decreases with age, it remains a significant predictor of disordered eating even in postmenopausal women.

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