News tagged with weight status

Body-image distortion predicts onset of unsafe weight-loss behaviors

Normal weight and underweight teenage girls who falsely believe they are overweight are at significantly greater risk of succumbing to unnecessary and unsafe weight-loss behaviors than girls who can accurately assess their ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 17, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Chubby hubby is common, but ethnicity matters

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study helps untangle how marriage, gender and ethnicity are related to body weight. The study of almost 8,000 men and women will be published in the journal Obesity.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0