A new study reveals a concerning association between viewing social media content emphasizing muscularity and muscle dysmorphia among boys and men in Canada and the United States. The research, part ...

It turns out that there may be some limits to the influence of Western culture on the rest of the world, after all. A new paper in Frontiers in Psychology that examined men's attitudes towards and ...

In this context, muscularity is often associated with masculinity and thus, feared by many women who prefer firm and tight, but not bulky bodies. On the other hand, there are a number of physical ...

American males are more likely to be dissatisfied with their bodies than their Taiwanese counterparts, a difference that may be due to cultural factors, according to the results of a recent study ...

Is muscle dysmorphia more common in men? Muscle dysmorphia mainly affects males, with symptoms usually beginning in late teens or early adulthood. With the current emphasis on leanness and muscularity ...

In patients with nephrolithiasis, an inverse relationship between 24-h urinary pH (24h-UpH) and body weight has been reported. Whether body composition indices and 24h-UpH are similarly associated in ...

Men’s Health magazine has transformed many men – and its own fortunes – by featuring extreme muscle makeovers. But does changing shape fast have a dark side? In 2004, Men’s Health journalist Dan ...