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A survey of English schoolchildren boys and girls are about the way they look. The study that over half of male schoolchildren confidence because of their body shape. The figure for girls was slightly higher, at 59 per cent. Researchers 693 teachers about how their students about their bodies. All the children had lessons on body image and self-esteem. Teachers many children were very upset if others said bad things about their appearance. Around 55 per cent of teachers that girls were "ultra-sensitive" to comments about their looks; the figure for boys easily hurt by taunts or teasing was 27 per cent.

Teachers a number of reasons why children as young as four years old are out about their shape. Over 90 per cent of teachers the Internet and television. Children see images of "perfect" bodies every day and they they have to look that way too. Almost 30 per cent of teachers said their female students sunbeds or sprays to look suntanned. Many children are on diets to themselves attractive to the opposite sex. One elementary school teacher said: "I work with four to five-year-olds and some things like, 'I can't eat cheese, it will make me fat'". A teachers' spokeswoman that children trying to look like " celebrities in the media only to misery".