We have known that kids who are overweight or obese have a higher risk for being overweight or obese as adults. But in this paper, we show that even children in the high normal weight...

We found that to be a very strong predictor of starting to use vomiting or laxatives to control weight.

The take-home message here is that we really need to think about body-image dissatisfaction in boys as well as girls, … Both are influenced by the images they see in the media, which can be...

One of the questions we asked them is how much effort they were making to look like females they see in the media,

Parents have to help teens understand that they’re comparing themselves to an image that isn’t real.

We need to look at the same thing in African American and Hispanic populations.