Recommendations made by the British Youth Council's youth select committee include funding for schools to support pupils' emotional wellbeing, including issues related to body dissatisfaction.
Body image issues should also be included in personal, social, health, and economic education (PSHE) classes and the government is also being asked to sponsor an annual "national body confidence week" to raise issues around body image, health and fitness.
The committee's recommendations follow its body image inquiry, which launched in May and has heard evidence from bloggers, children's mental health experts and young people's organisations.
The committee said that too often young people's negative image of their body is dismissed as a "phase".
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