In college, I didn’t speak for an entire month. I wore headphones on campus and during grueling workouts at the gym, chomped heaps of dining hall chicken breasts alone, sat in the back of classes and ...

How young is too young to worry about muscles? For one boy in Arizona, it started happening at age 11. He became increasingly concerned about his body composition, his mom recalls — mostly, he was on ...

This is the first post in a series. Quite often, body image is discussed as if it were an issue that resides in and belongs only to the individual person. And because it is often seen as a personal ...

We’ve come a long way as a culture when it comes to awareness of mental health conditions related to body image, like anorexia and binge eating disorder. But other issues remain less well-known and ...

The cast and filmmaker from Toronto International Film Festival drama “The Cut” stopped by the Los Angeles Times Studios at RBC House to talk about the film and how body image issues have changed over ...

Generally, body image issues stemming from unrealistic beauty standards on social media are primarily discussed in terms of how they affect women. For a long time, the focus was on women struggling ...

"Fitspiration" content on TikTok reinforces harmful body ideals, spreads health misinformation, and contributes to the oversexualization of women, according to a recent Australian study. The study ...