Desire to lose weight, dietary intake and psychological correlates among middle-aged and older women. The CoLaus study

When someone tries to reduce weight after internalizing ideas about their body, comparing themselves favorably to others, and feeling stigmatized, they may end up weight cycling, which is the repetitive process of gaining and losing weight throughout life. The relationship between social pressures, weight cycling, and perceived and internalized stigma has not been systematically investigated […]

Published works on body image and diet mostly discuss individual foods, without enough focus on the part ultra-processed foods play in dietary consumption. In this study by Oliveira et al. (2020), the authors aimed to evaluate the relationship between body image (dis)satisfaction and perception of dietary consumption, in accordance with the NOVA classification (a classification […]