Psychology & Psychiatry
Body image not always a drag on women's wellbeing
Deakin University psychology researchers have found that body image isn't always a negative experience for women.
Jan 31, 2012
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News tagged with body image
Health
Media's focus on ideal body shape can boost women's body satisfaction -- for a while
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 readers' own body satisfaction improved.
Apr 11, 2011
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Psychology & Psychiatry
How body ideals shape the health of gay men
Gay men currently receive little research attention when it comes to health issues such as eating disorders and other body image concerns. Yet expectations are high for gay men, as the western ideal masculine body is muscular ...
Jan 7, 2019
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Parkinson's & Movement disorders
People with Parkinson's show altered iron levels in their brains
Iron occurs naturally in the human body. However, in people with Parkinson's disease it distributes in an unusual way over the brain. This is the result of a study by the DZNE that has been published in the journal Brain. ...
Nov 28, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Perceptions of body image linked to sexual dysfunction
After working with adolescents for several years before her time at the University of Missouri, Virginia Ramseyer Winter noticed most of the teens she interacted with were dissatisfied with their bodies, regardless of the ...
Oct 9, 2020
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Health
Why yoga belongs in gym class
Awkward gym uniforms, regulated fitness tests, being the last one picked – for many high school kids, gym class is anything but fun and games.
Nov 17, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
The real benefits of walking in a winter wonderland
Research has shown for the first time that spending time in snowy surroundings can improve how you feel about your body.
Nov 29, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Ten minutes on children's internet game enough to lower body satisfaction among young girls, study finds
Young girls reported heightened body dissatisfaction after playing a children's internet game for just 10 minutes, a study has found.
Jun 22, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Comics can improve queer men's body image
Built, buff and metrosexually styled—such is the dominant stereotype of what queer men should look like. Magazines, websites, image-based social media and dating apps contribute to creating idealized images of muscular ...
Jul 15, 2019
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Health
Molecular imaging finds link between obesity and low estrogen levels
A new study presented at SNM's 58th Annual Meeting could throw open the door to a recently established area of obesity research. Investigators have developed a novel molecular imaging agent that targets estrogenic mechanisms ...
Jun 7, 2011
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