Serious concerns about how social media shapes adolescents’ eating habits, body image, and relationship with food are being ...

CLEVELAND — Every parent has wondered it: how much damage is all that screen time really doing to my kid? The answer, according to a leading adolescent medicine specialist, is more nuanced than you ...

The restrictions affect posts related to body image and mental health.

Punishing regimens of facial exercises. Intentional starvation. Reshaping the jawline or cheekbones by smashing them with a hammer or chisel. These are some of the more extreme behaviors in a practice ...

A new study from the University of Texas at Arlington sheds light on a distressing reality: Adolescents who perceive themselves as overweight are more likely to consider self-harm than those who do ...

The study, published in NeuroImage, looked at brain images of teenage girls who experienced appearance-related cyberbullying. This might look like people targeting the way someone else looks or ...

Q Our teen son seems fixated — almost obsessed — about how he looks. It’s not just filtering or editing his selfies. He seems almost panicky about his physique. Is that normal? A I think most of us ...

For many dancers, body image — the way a person thinks about their own body — is highly important. In dance, the body is a vessel used for self-expression — and the focus of those watching the ...

NEW YORK -- Instagram says it's looking at new ways to discourage users from focusing on their physical appearance after The Wall Street Journal revealed that Facebook researchers have repeatedly ...

Encouraging healthy eating habits and positive body image in children is essential for fostering self-esteem and preventing disordered eating later in life.