A new UK study has found that just ten minutes playing an Internet game based on female appearance is enough to increase body dissatisfaction in young girls.
Conducted by the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), the study recruited a group of 40 eight- and nine-year-old girls and asked them to play a game in which they had to give a female character a makeover for a date.
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