The purpose of this research is to investigate the direction of "health education" in school education. To lay the foundation for this research, an investigation and analysis of college women's weight-consciousness and slimming behavior was carried out. From the results, it can be seen that there is a strong "desire to slim down" and at the same time, there is a mistaken perception that one "is fat" even though one's figure is of standard proportions. It is believed that because "the age when one begins to get anxious about one's figure" corresponds to a certain extent with the occurrence of the development of one's "secondary sexual characteristics"; it is possible that one might actually mistake a change in one's figure, which is really due to development of sexual characteristics, for the fact that one has "grown fat", and so in the end one desires to "be slim". It is important to further one's understanding of "sexual characteristics" beyond the framework of the curriculum through school education during this period, so that the ability to appropriately handle bodily changes can be developed. One concern is that, of the people adopting slimming behavior, there are many high school students, and they diet by either not eating or through skipping meals, thus adversely affecting their health. There is a need to help people, using expertise from a wide variety of fields, to lead a healthy lifestyle with a good balance of nutrition, exercise, rest and sleep.
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