Better-adjusted adults would make for better-adjusted children, surely?

Deborah Orr: Trying to warn children off succumbing to body image pressures is no good if so many adults succumb to them

How to teach … positive body image

This week, following a parliamentary report on the subject, the Guardian Teacher Network has resources to help pupils explore the issues around body image

Elderly struck by ‘epidemic’ of body image and eating disorders

Anxiety over appearance on rise as over-70s struggle with stigma now surrounding ageing

Uncomfortable in our skin: the body-image report

More of us than ever hate the way that we look. It’s making us anxious, unhealthy and disempowered. Eva Wiseman presents a special report on the pressures distorting the way we think and feel

Body confidence awards: a start in fightback against image-makers

Parliamentary group's inaugural awards challenge culture producing consumers addicted to beauty products and despair

Comment is free readers on … body image

The people's panel: As an inquiry into self-image coincides with a protest against dieting, five readers tell us their experience

Body image concerns more men than women, research finds

Anxiety about body image has led to some men conceding they would exchange a year of their life for the perfect physique

Curvy + hairy + size 10 = real woman?

Cathy Relf: As 'unreal woman' becomes the new pariah, let's have more honesty and clarity about body image

Distorted body image means people don’t know the back of their own hands

Study suggests the brain has highly distorted representations of our hands. The distortion may extend to the rest of the body

Getting the kids in shape

Zoe Williams: If 10-year-olds fixated on body image worry us, we need to address the adult culture they grow up in