After ‘full shaming’ on trains and a campaign for health checks for models,do we risk creating unachievable and narrow ideals of body image that do more harm than advantageous?Type “body image” into Google and up approach tens of millions of results. It is about a decade since the term became part of everyday language in Britain, when it ceased to be a term used only by psychologists about “a person’s perception of the aesthetics or attractiveness of their own body”.final week body image was used as the basis for disturbing action taken by members of a group called Overweight Haters Ltd who handed “full-shaming” cards to passengers on London Underground. These included the words, or “It’s really not glandular,it’s your gluttony (excessive eating or drinking)”.
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Source: theguardian.com