'Bigorexics' is wanting to increase their virility

But anorexic of boys stereotypes can identify with female, study suggests

By Robert Pandey

HealthDay reporter

Thursday, 28 March HealthDay News)-men obsessed with building lean muscle compared to traditional ideas of masculinity, while men fixed on the thin probably more female stereotypes assign according to a new study.

Guys, who have known a disease called muscular dysmorphic features, popularly from the idea that it is not muscular consumes enough as "Bigorexia."

It was believed that was sexuality of one of the main factors behind muscle dysmorphic features in men, but this study suggests, that how men look is important, according to the Australian researchers, the results of the study which will be published in the 27 March issue of the journal of eating disorders.

A group of men researchers had developed a questionnaire to find out how she look at in comparison to common stereotypes of male thoughts and behaviors.

With a strong desire as a muscular men had a greater preference for traditional masculinity, while those with a high drive for slimming (such as anorexia) more in the direction of leaning female roles, the study found.

"This does not mean, that the men with anorexia not less male, yet, that the men with muscle dysmorphic features less feminine than the control subjects we recruited,", said study leader Stuart Murray, a clinical psychologist in a magazine press release. "However, it is an indication of the increasing pressures men are under to define their masculinity in the modern world."

He and his colleagues found that research over the past decades has shown that a growing number of men saying with their body image dissatisfied. This can be shown either a desire to lose weight and be thin or weight gain and muscle build.

This can cause problems if a person shall abuse steroids or unhealthy eating habits, or when the compulsion to exercise overwhelms normal life and a loss of sleep, leads to reduced quality of life or even the inability to keep a normal job, the researchers said.