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The Australian National University (ANU) study is looking at the causes of dysfunctional body image and low self-esteem in young people. Poor body image is one of the risk factors for mental health problems including depression and eating disorders in...
Tags: body image, eating disorders, murray says, image problems, poor body, Australia, Sydney, Stress, Health, Adolescence, Major depressive disorder, Abnormal psychology, Body shape, Eating disorder, Health Medical Pharma
Kate Winslet is serious about positive body image—and her crusade is aimed at more than just the impressionable young women of the world. The actress has won $40,000 from the Daily Mail, which reported in January that Winslet lied when she said...
Tags: Kate Winslet, Lawsuit, Daily Mail, Body Image, Libel, Women
Do you remember being in middle school and going over to friends houses to be bad? Do you have things that would fit into this category, that you may not make public, but that are your "bad habits"? I am currently going against the invitation to live...
Australians will be invited to express their views on body image in an online survey. The survey will help the federal government develop its body image strategy, being overseen by an advisory group including celebrity Sarah Murdoch. Youth Minister Kate...
Tags: body image
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail April 28, 2009 at 4:19 AM EDT Is Britney Spears fat? It's hardly a debate you'd expect your daughter to have at Girl Guides, where she usually earns badges for stamp collecting, recycling, bird watching or building a campfire.
Tags: girl guides, body image, positives body
I've been listening to the furore over the "too skinny" Miss Universe Australia contestant Stephanie Naumoska for the last 24 hours. Aged 19, weighing somewhere between 49kg and 52kg (depending on which report you believe) and standing 180cm tall, Stephanie...
Tags: skinny, Miss Universe contest, body image, anorexia, bulimia
Quebec provincial police are investigating how two patients nearly bled to death during surgery after receiving an anticoagulant drug at a hospital in Ste-Eustache, Que. Investigators want to know why both patients received potentially lethal doses of...
Tags: Quebec, body image
According to the largest annual survey of Australian youth, body image, drugs and family conflict top the list. The Mission Australia survey quizzed more than 45,000 people aged between 11 and 24. Just over a quarter of respondents listed body image,...
Tags: teens, Mission Australia, body image
The Minister for Youth, Kate Ellis, yesterday announced a $125,000 plan to develop national guidelines on body image to tackle the "silent epidemic" of eating disorders plaguing teenagers and young women. These could include an age limit of 16 for catwalk...
Tags: body image
Beginning Friday at two checkpoints at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport’s Terminal D, the Transportation Security Administration will begin using two "whole body image" machines that can look through your clothes and produce images of your body to detect metallic...
Tags: machine, body image