Could you benefit from an improved relationship with food and body image? Learn the three D’s to improved body image.
What is Fat Shaming? Are You a Shamer?
Weightism may be the last socially acceptable prejudice in our culture — occurring more frequently than gender, sexuality, age or religious discrimination. Are you guilty of fat shaming? Here’s more for why this needs to change.
New Bill Seeks to Regulate Photoshop Use in Ads
If the average consumer isn’t in-the-know about how many images are dramatically photoshopped — images often used to sell something — they might be accepted as an accurate portrayal of the human form. Read more why this is dangerous.
Instead of Sweating Over Weight Loss This Summer
Fighting our body’s natural weight and size may begin as an innocuous effort to increase self-esteem yet can quickly unravel to a serious and potentially life-threatening illness. Nearly 20 million women and 10 million men will suffer from an eating disorder in their lifetime.
Dove’s Latest Campaign Ad: A Powerful Message Against Negative Self-Image
Dove’s latest ad for its campaign for real beauty packs a powerful message in a video highlighting the negative impact of distorted self image.
Victoria Secret Model Challenges the “Ideal Beauty” (You Go Girl)
To girls aspiring to attain the ideal beauty, model Cameron Russell urges them to aim higher. She equates her success in the world of modeling to winning the genetic lottery — it’s unattainable for most and hardly a reasonable goal.
Eating Disorder Awareness Week: Everybody Knows Somebody
It’s no secret that we live in a diet-obsessed and beauty-crazed society. Just turn on the TV and count the seconds before you catch an ad for the latest weight-loss fad or seductive images of a bikini-clad model biting into a fast-food chain’s hamburger. Many women and men are feeling the pressure to achieve society’s narrow definitions of “beauty.” Fighting our body’s natural weight and size may begin as an innocuous effort to increase body satisfaction yet can quickly unravel to a serious and potentially life-threatening illness. Nearly 20 million women and 10 million men will suffer from an eating disorder in their lifetime. For tips on how to improve body image, read Dr. Long’s blog: Three D’s to Improved Body … Read More