Tag: Body Image

  • Nation & World

    Giving weight too much weight

    Programs to combat obesity may be aggravating eating disorders and undermining their severity, said experts during a panel discussion hosted by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Weighed down

    Harvard anthropologist Susan Greenhalgh’s new book, “Fat-Talk Nation: The Human Costs of America’s War on Fat,” delves deep into the national obsession with thinness.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A healthy replacement for dieting

    Three specialists spoke to students about the benefits of intuitive eating in an event at Sever Hall.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The no-diet dietitian

    Forget nutrition labels and calorie counting. Michelle Gallant, a clinical dietitian at Harvard University Health Services, is on a one-woman mission to teach how proper eating means trusting your gut.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Tweens convene for learning, support on body image

    In a study about weight and body satisfaction, researchers measured the height and weight of 4,254 schoolchildren from Nova Scotia and asked them how much they agreed with the statement “I like the way I look.”

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    ‘Tweens’ feel pressure for perfect bodies

    Ten- and 11-year-old boys and girls feel pressured to have perfect bodies, U.S. and Canadian researchers found. The researchers found a direct association between body satisfaction and weight in fifth graders — part of the age group increasingly known as tweens by those in media marketing…

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