Kyle Ganson is a University of Toronto assistant professor in social work who studies muscle dysmorphia, a body image-related disorder that is common among men. (Mike Cole/CBC - image credit) Experts ...

Body modifiers like Ozempic and other weight loss drugs have gotten attention for how skinny they can make you. But what if you're a boy who wants... Men have body dysmorphia too. That's why some use ...

Appearance-based social media trends like looksmaxxing, softmaxxing, and hardmaxxing are often framed as self-improvement, ...

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When I asked real people why they post their workouts online, I received well over a hundred replies, many of them filled with venting about body image issues and unattainable beauty standards. That's ...

When Kenan was 16, he started going to the gym to get bigger. He had been bullied his entire life about his size, and once he started to see his body change in the mirror he couldn’t get enough. “I ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Body dysmorphia, anorexia and bulimia have been studied in women for years, but rare is an account from a man who battled the dangerous, distorted reflection in his mirror. Out this ...

The gym is constantly on Dashiell Frederickson’s mind. The 16-year-old works out religiously every day, sometimes for up to three hours a day. “The gym is all I can think about during the day,” ...

The cast and filmmaker from Toronto International Film Festival drama “The Cut” stopped by the Los Angeles Times Studios at RBC House to talk about the film and how body image issues have changed over ...

For young men, there's another drug getting more and more popular: steroids. Fit and muscular bodies get celebrated on social media, and many men turn to steroids to match what they see. But with that ...