Articles tagged: "body image"

1: Winning the Long-Term Weight Loss Game

Weight loss efforts eventually encounter resistance and sticking points, but being proactive can determine whether the tough spots lead to failure or renewed focus.

2: How to Show Your Daughter How Beautiful She Really Is

In a culture of stick-thin models, our daughters are embarking on a dangerous path of body dissatisfaction, with dieting, bingeing, and purging. Fortunately, there are things you can do to show her she is beautiful just the way she is.

3: A Size 2 Is Not Fat!

Do you think that only thin is beautiful, or can you find beauty in everybody?

4: Fatten Up to Lose Weight!

Healthy fats are a vital part of good nutrition and any successful weight loss effort. Learning the difference between healthy and unhealthy fats is more effective than utilizing processed "fat free" products.

5: Eat Healthy, Keep Your Job: Health Trends in America

As the media emphasizes and glamorizes size 0, larger cities ban trans fats and corporations begin to force employees to live healthier lives. Which trends are helpful to the consumer, and which ones go too far?

6: What Is Female Body Image And How Do I Improve It?

All women at some point worry about body image. They look in the mirror and don't like what they see. This article tackles negative body image perception head on by challenging women to amend how the think by following simple easy tasks.

7: Teen Chat: 4 Steps To Have A Great Body Image

Hi Teens: If we were to do a survey that asked how many of us feel happy with our bodies, what percentage do you think would answer, “I am happy with how my body looks” Research done about body image shows that women are much more critical of their appearance than men

8: Resisting Media Hype

Who would have thought that there would come a day when my mother and me would meet as two strong, healthy, and brilliant women; delighting in each other’s company and challenging and supporting each other in the quest to make our individual and collective dreams come true Certainly not me

9: How Your Actions Affect Your Teen 's Body Image

Today 's society places emphasis on the outward appearance of our bodies more than ever before. Our society places a high value on the idea of being impossibly thin. A recent study has shown that the majority of the models we see in print ads and on TV are actually thinner than 98% of most of th

10: My Body Is a Wonderland

Exhausted one morning after an 8-hour sleep, I tried to convince myself to get up. I didn't want to move -- not because I was snuggled comfortably in a cozy bed, but because the thought of hoisting myself up and lumbering on sore feet to the bathroom was more than I could bear. At 331 Pounds I