Calls for social media firms to pay mental healthcare levy and weight-loss ads to be vetted Almost a third of British teenagers feel ashamed of their body, with imagery of "idealised" bodies on social media driving their insecurity, new research has found. The same number of young people have changed their eating habits in an effort to alter how they look, a survey of teenagers undertaken for the Mental Health Foundation (MHF) shows.
Calls for social media firms to pay mental healthcare levy and weight-loss ads to be vetted Almost a third of British teenagers feel ashamed of their body, with imagery of "idealised" bodies on social media driving their insecurity, new research has found. The same number of young people have changed their eating habits in an effort to alter how they look, a survey of teenagers undertaken for the Mental Health Foundation (MHF) shows.
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