This combination photo shows overweight and obese people in July 2003 in Los Angeles, May 2013 in Mexico City and October 2006 in Manchester, England. Researchers blame the body positive movement ...

Insight and Health Fat and proud: Why body-positive activists say obesity can be healthy Growing calls for "fat acceptance" fly in the face of accepted medical advice, but studies show you can be ...

Body positivity (which was created by plus-size Black women and stemmed from the fat activism movement which gained momentum in the 1960s), anti-diet, "health at every size" — there are various ...

If we go back far enough in time and look at sculptures created by ancestral humans populations, we get a very different picture of what the ideal body for women may have looked like. Our ...

While the National Institutes of Health measures more than 70% of Americans as overweight/obese, only 42% of Americans self-report as being “overweight” in opinion polls. Who’s right?

Even more importantly, I strive to set a positive example for my daughter to model, and my sons to form their perception of women. Strength training empowers me to be a better mother.

Instead, Michaels is claiming that Lizzo’s “overweight” body shouldn’t be celebrated, based on assumptions about her current and future health status. These comments are stigmatizing fat ...

Exposure to obesity changed women’s perception of what normal, healthy body weight looked like. Women who were exposed to heavier men reported being more attracted to men who were overweight.