Tag: body image
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15 comments you need to stop making about your body
The way you speak about your body matters. It shapes your mindset, affects your self-esteem, and can influence how you treat yourself. You’re looking in the mirror and you don’t like the wrinkles you see. You think, “I look too old.” You’re walking and you don’t like how your thighs rub together. You think, “My…
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Stop praising weight loss
Weight loss is a hard thing to achieve. Period. So when you see someone who’s transformed their body I understand there’s a pull there to say, “Wow, you look great, that’s amazing that you’ve lost 10 kilos!” But I think we’re dangerously missing the mark by praising weight loss. I personally know of a couple…
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Does Batman have bigorexia?
Dietitian Lucy Carey probes into the pressures our young men face, and how body dysmorphia is more common than we think. Barbie gets a lot of crap for having a body that’s simply impossible to reconcile with good health. Since she came onto toy shelves in 1959, Barbie’s gotten thinner and thinner and her breasts…