The scale of body shaming is more extensive than most people realize. Studies suggest that the vast majority of teenage girls and a significant portion of teenage boys have experienced body shaming, ...

Kritty Gahatraj, a Delhi-based PR professional opens up about how years of casual body shaming shaped her self-worth before ...

Weight-loss drugs turn food noise down, but it can be replaced by something far more disturbing. As the so-called ‘skinny ...

Understanding Body Shaming Through Personal Stories In response to our invitation for individuals to share their experiences ...

Ah, Thanksgiving. That magical time of year when you’re expected to smile through small talk, dodge family politics, and, for many of us, navigate the very real experience of body shaming at ...

Feeling ashamed of how we look has become normal. Hardly any of us think we make the beauty grade. We might even think there is something odd with someone who is perfectly happy with how they look.

The rapid adoption of weight-loss medications such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Zepbound represents one of the most striking cultural shifts in weight management I’ve witnessed in nearly 30 years of ...

If you’ve been scrolling lately, you may have noticed the shift in how we talk about bodies. Once again, thinness is being elevated as the gold standard of health, and in that shift, body positivity ...

In my first post on shame I laid out a paradigm for understanding and healing shame. (Click here to read Shame: The Master Emotion.) I wrote that shame has two components. First there is an assault (e ...

Sports injuries among female athletes can be reduced by creating a safe, supportive environment for training and competition, an International Olympic Committee panel has concluded. Among many other ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader Claire Wolford responded to the body-shaming she received, saying that years ago, the comments ...