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Reflections Impact Statistics
* 8 months after the program, 53% of women who have participated at one school no longer felt strongly that their weight influenced how they felt about themselves as a person
* 48% of women at one college who said they “felt fat almost every day” before the program felt fat never or less than half the time up to 8 months after the program
* Over half of participants who felt their shape often interfered with their ability to concentrate before the program experienced a dramatic decrease in how often their shape interfered with their ability to concentrate well after the program
* No other eating disorders prevention program has undergone such rigorous testing by independent scientists as Reflections
* Reflections is the first program of its kind to have been found effective when delivered by peer leaders
Body Image Statistics - Issues Begin at an Early Age
* 46% of 9-11 year-olds are “sometimes” or “very often” on diets (National Eating Disorders Association)
* 25% of American men and 45% of American women are on a diet on any given day (Smolak, 1996)
* Most fashion models are thinner than 98% of American women (Smolak, 1996)
* 91% of women recently surveyed on a college campus had attempted to control their weight through dieting, 22% dieted “often” or “always” (Kurth et al., 1995)
* 40% of newly identified cases of anorexia are in girls 15-19 years old (National Eating Disorders Association)