COLUMBUS, Ohio – When researchers had college-age women view magazines for five straight days that only included images of women with thin, idealized body types, something surprising happened: the ...

The body-positive movement has encouraged people, especially women, to see beauty in all shapes and sizes, and it's reminded us that body ideals are culturally constructed and not based on science.

How can social media contribute to a more diverse concept of body shapes and physical attractiveness? The answer is body-positive content. On social media platforms, slim and fit bodies are often ...

It is well established that many women exercise to improve their appearance. Do exercising men also worry about how they look? Some research reveals that men workout in order to have a ...

Are you a health freak? Well, then you need to quit these 5 mistakes immediately. A well shaped body is not just mere few ...

Beauty can come in many different forms. What one person finds attractive or beautiful in another is entirely subjective, but how does one country or culture's perception of beauty differ from another ...

Growing up in the early aughts, so-called women’s magazines, read furtively in the library, were my religion. I was a true believer, zealously committing the good books — Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, and ...