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Childhood Obesity: Understanding and Preventing Doctors say that obesity is now reaching ‘epidemic’ proportions. According to recent figures from the National Child Measurement Programme, which assesses height and weight of children in England, more than 33% of 11-year-olds and 22%…

What can neuroimaging studies teach us about gender differences in body image concerns? Concerns about body image are a key feature of eating disorders, which have been the topic of several messages of the day by now.  Eating disorders are…

Effects of body image therapy in anorexia nervosa: An fMRI study Beyond self-starvation, Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is characterised by body image disturbance including a misperception of one’s own body size and an extreme dissatisfaction with one’s own body (Vocks et…

Can body image dissatisfaction be reduced by teaching people to be more critical of airbrushed ads? Fashion advertising uses extensively airbrushing technology to change models’ body shape and appearance in general. Hundreds of studies have shown that for the majority…

Enhancing Resilience from Within As humans, we have a continuing experience of our body, so that when we look ourselves in the mirror, when we walk, or when we have a stomach ache we think of these experiences as belonging…

What can neuroimaging studies tell us about obesity? Food is readily and abundantly available in the industrialised world. Yet, despite the many cafés, restaurants, supermarkets and corner shops we pass every day, not all of us over-eat and become obese.…

The negative consequences of body dissatisfaction are well known and have been the focus of numerous studies. But what do we know about the risk factors that might help us predict increased body dissatisfaction? A study investigated this in a…

How about changing the body… temporarily? Body image in virtual reality Systems in the brain that are responsible for visual perception have been widely studied. These systems give us the possibility to create a representation of the surrounding world by…

The problem: Research has shown that most adults in the UK fail to get enough exercise, risking their health. One solution: A study with 127 male and female elementary school, high school and university students found that high exercisers reported…

Body aesthetics and weight – not the same thing!   A study by Cazzato and colleagues provides interesting new evidence relating to the idea that beauty and weight are not the same thing, and are processed differently in the brains…