Weight Watchers wins when our diets fail – it won’t change society’s broken thinking around food

The diet industry benefits if you become a customer for life: its profits soar with our failures, says psychotherapist, psychoanalyst and social critic Susie Orbach

From short king spring to ‘short men are psychopaths’. When will the obsession with men’s height end?

A new study claims to have proved that the Napoleon complex is real – but it misses the bigger picture, says feature writer Simon Usborne

A new start after 60: I survived cancer – and learned to respect my amazing body

For decades Sylvie Boulay agonised about her weight, happy when it fell, miserable when it rose. After two brushes with death, she has finally found peace

Young people don’t hate their bodies because they are weak – but because capitalism demands it

From buccal fat to cellulite, anything innate to humans that can be made into a problem will create a market for the solution, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

I hate my ageing body. Why do I look at myself with disgust?

Observe your critical voice to put distance between it and you – and remember that the most attractive women are those who carry themselves with pride

Piggy review – darkly fun horror wreaks brutal revenge on the bodyshamers

Laura Galán is a delight as an awkward teen caught in a web of small-town gossip and murder in this socially conscious Spanish slasher

Alva Claire: ‘I don’t do things by halves’

London-born, Brooklyn-based Alva Claire has established herself as one of fashion’s hottest models. But, as she tells Kate Finnigan, it’s been a long time coming

‘It feels like the progress is getting reversed’: how fashion fell out of love with curves

Catwalks are more diverse than ever on paper. But at the high-profile shows this season, it was all about the flat stomach

Would you have your legs broken to make yourself taller? The men who go through hell for a little extra height

The procedure can cost £80,000 – but increasing numbers of people are putting themselves through leg-lengthening surgery. What drives them to do it? And is it worth the pain and potential complications?

Is there a single comedian out there who isn’t fatphobic? Apart from me, of course

I’m not saying that all my peers set out to make fun of fat people. But that doesn’t make their shows safe spaces, writes Sofie Hagen