College men, in general, wished to be heavier and more muscular. Adult men preferred a more muscular, but not heavier, build. Dr. Debra Hull, professor of psychology, helped conduct the study and attributes the body image results to media messages. In striving to meet this unrealistic media ideal, women may develop eating disorders and men may turn to steroid usage. Women, however, underestimate the female body size that men find attractive.
Women strive to be smaller, even though men find larger sizes attractive.
By studying the body mass index of ideal images of young women, Hull plans to expand this research to determine if a woman s view of attractiveness is actually healthy. WJU Participates in Protest Wheeling Jesuit University participates in the School of Americas Protest at Fort Benning, Georgia. As soon as I got there, I knew why I had come, said WJU student Vince Bruni. This is for the good of all mankind. The SOA, located within the gates of Fort Benning, Ga., trains Latin American personnel in military procedures.