The Dangers of Skinny Shaming
Natasha Mitter
Take a moment to consider these statements. “You’re going to finish that cheeseburger? Aren’t you on a diet?” “Go eat something and get some real curves, you bag of bones!” In…
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The “Perfect” Body in Different Eras
Nilufer Hajra
Our idea of the “perfect body” has evolved throughout the years. What our grandmothers thought was the perfect body is not the same as what our mothers thought was the…
How Eating Disorders Can Swallow You Whole
The Wellness Insider has explored the issues of emotional eating, binge eating and body image intimately over the last few months. If you’ve been reading our articles, you might have…
Grooming Plus Sized Beauties for Pageant and Confidence
Melissa Fann
(Left to right) Last year’s winner, Jodel Padao Mesina, the newly crowned Ms Top of the World Plus Size, and 2016’s winner Fiona Tan Held at Cebu, Philippines, the crown…
17 Facts About Body Image and Eating Disorders
There are many assumptions about body image as well as eating disorders, but what are facts and what are just stereotypes? Here are 17 facts about both that we hope…
Why A Book on Body Confidence?
We’ve mentioned that we’re in the midst of compiling body positive interviews with notable personalities as part of our second anniversary. However, besides celebrating ourselves and trying to promote body…
The Ups and Downs of Emotional Eating
In the simplest terms, emotional eating is eating to feed your emotional needs rather than your physical ones. It was initially defined as eating in response to negative emotions, but…
Body Love and Body Acceptance
It does not take a genius to realise that our culture is obsessed with achieving the proverbial “ideal body”. We are bombarded daily with images of skinny models with flawless…
Ways To Relieve Aching Joints
If there is a lot of walking or sitting in your life, you are bound to suffer from aching joints. Aching joints do not only affect senior people as people…
People Who Broke Conventional Beauty Standards
Jayne How
Although there is the saying that “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”, there is still a convention of symmetrical faces, perfect skin, even skin tone and high cheekbones…
