Center for Body Image Research and Policy

MU Study Finds Eating Breakfast with Parents is Associated with Positive Body Image in Teenagers

Mar 21, 2019 | Resources

Parents hoping to raise teenagers with positive body image might just find helpful tools in the kitchen every morning. A new study from the University of Missouri says consistently eating breakfast as a family might promote positive body image for children and...

Could Family Breakfast Give kids Good Body Image?

Mar 21, 2019 | Resources

Eating breakfast as a family can help promote a positive body image for children and adolescents, a new study suggests. “We know that developing healthy behaviors in adolescence such as eating breakfast every day and eating family meals can have long-term effects into...

Eating Breakfast and Family Meals in Adolescence: The Role of Body Image

Feb 14, 2019 | Published Studies

Abstract:  Regularly eating breakfast and meals with the family has important health implications for youth. However, the association between eating breakfast and family meals regularly with body image has not been explored. Utilizing the 2009–2010 World Health...

Why Doesn’t Sex Ed Cover Body Image?

Feb 5, 2019 | Resources

We don’t often think of body image as being directly related to our sex lives, much less our sexual health, but a growing body of research shows the two are actually intimately related. Led by Virginia Ramseyer Winter, Ph.D., MSW, Director of the University of...

Center for Body Image Research and Policy Aimes to Promote Positive Message

Nov 28, 2018 | Resources

Center for Body Image Research and Policy was created in October of 2018. Dr. Ginny Ramseyer Winter the Director of the new research collaborative is working to help people improve issues related to physical appearance. Read Full Article Here and Watch Video...