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AI-generated attractiveness scores raise concerns about body image, privacy, child safety and coercive control.
For some people, healthy eating can become an obsession that has a devastating impact on their health and relationships.
Here are 4 things to avoid and 3 things to try to help model good eating and body image for your kids.
Athletes in sports where weight and body image come into play, such as figure skating and wrestling, can be particularly vulnerable.
Social media and advertising is full of messages about what you should or shouldn’t eat. But making health and nutrition so black and white can do more harm than good.
With a little thought, you can host a meal with family and friends that’s supports everyone.
Disordered eating doesn’t always lead to an eating disorder. But these behaviours – especially dieting – can be the first sign.
They might seem like harmless fun but in fact they can reinforce dangerous ideas about food, weight and body image.
Muscularity oriented disordered eating refers to the disordered eating habits people may adopt in their drive to gain muscle and look lean.
Thinking about food all day, feeling guilty when you eat, not knowing when you’re actually hungry: these could be signs you need to work on your relationship with food.
The mortality rate of people with eating disorders is six times higher than the general population, and they are five times more likely to attempt suicide. However, few people seek treatment.
As the trend for “heroin chic” returns to runways, new Netflix film The Wonder takes aim at our fascination with disordered eating.
A small body of research has started to explore how fitness trackers and calorie counting apps might be linked to disordered eating and exercise.
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Professor, Head of Body Image, Eating and Weight Disorders Research, Adelaide University
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Research Fellow, School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University
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Clinical Psychologist and Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University
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Laureate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
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Professor Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Loughborough University
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Lancaster University
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Director of the Kendall Reagan Nutrition Center, Colorado State University
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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Anschutz
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Senior Lecturer Psychology, University of Westminster
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Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Clinical Psychologist and Research Fellow (Lead Clinician), Monash University
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Chartered Psychologist & Associate Professor of Digital Health & Wellbeing, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Clinical Psychologist, Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, Swinburne University of Technology
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Clinical Psychologist and Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Canberra