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title: "Women's Health: Then and Now"
date: 2023-12-04T18:00:00-05:00
author: OBOS Admin
canonical_url: "https://ourbodiesourselves.org/media-coverage/womens-health-now"
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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# Women's Health: Then and Now

WebMD • December 4, 2023

WebMD asked Our Bodies Ourselves founder Judy Norsigian how far the women's health movement has come since the 1970s.

> When it comes to accepting our own bodies, we seem to have regressed in some ways. Norsigian says the college women she speaks to feel enormous pressure to have cosmetic procedures or undergo extreme dieting -- the result, she says, of mass media with its barrage of makeover reality TV shows and ads for anticellulite creams.

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