By: Wynne Parry, LiveScience Contributor Published: 05/26/2013 09:14 AM EDT on LiveScience Editor's Note: With the release of the latest edition...
Men suffering from eating disorders are typically aiming for one of two things: to make themselves smaller, or to make themselves as muscular as possi...
Clearly, celebrity interviews provide no shortage of encouraging words. But if you're in the market for reliable information, there are surely better sources -- so I chose a scientist over a celebrity to debunk some of the body-image myths that Hollywood helps perpetuate.
People who restrict how much they eat because they have body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), a kind of body image disorder, may also be at a higher risk fo...
For many, OCD is a time-consuming, debilitating disorder resulting in lost jobs, relationships and important life opportunities. When it comes to trying to understand OCD, people often make the mistake of looking only at the compulsions, and so they miss the real story.
Sure, I've had my share of bad relationships. But by far the most complex, most intricate, most twisted relationship in my life has been with food.
As many of you know I've been seen at 26 years of age and 46 years of age naked round the world the last several weeks.
A study by the Schools Health Education Unit said 38% of surveyed girls in Year Six were not happy with their weight. The figure i...
BDD, body dysmorphic disorder, causes patients significant distress or impairment in social, occupational or other important areas of functioning.
Plastic surgeons should take a good, hard look at their nose-job patients before taking out the knife -- and not just to figure out where to cut. ...
Cosmetic changes may seem superficial, but they are permanent, can have far-reaching emotional consequences and deserve careful examination.
Let me throw in my nomination for the fiercest kind of mother: the French mother. Here's what the Chinese/Jewish/French superiority models have in common.
by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger The woman gunning for Sen. Harry Reid's (D-NV) job doesn't believe that autism exists. Yes, you hea...
The cover of People this past January was about 23-year-old reality star Heidi Montag's 10 plastic surgery procedures in one sitting. I mean, how bad could she have looked before?
I think the shock came from the incongruity of a woman of mature age dressed like an extra from the Halloween scene of Mean Girls - a movie about high schoolers, in case you have forgotten.
Despite her penchant for skimpy stage costumes and readiness to be photographed nude, Lily Allen tells Q magazine (via Daily Express) she has body dys...
