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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Body Positive"”.
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An investigation of adolescent girls’ critical media health literacy in a body-positive program
… 26 adolescent girls participating in a four-week body-positive program. Employing a qualitative case study method, this study explores how girls respond to a program which promotes health, body image, self-esteem, physical activity, and critical awareness. Research questions explore girls’ …
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The pregnant pause: exploring expectations and experiences of pregnancy and motherhood in a Cape Town body positive community
… of pregnancy and motherhood held by women in body positive communities in Cape Town, South Africa. By focusing on their expectations and experiences of these concepts within body positive communities and their wider social circles, the research examines what it means for women to want or not …
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Are All Bodies Good Bodies?: Redefining Femininity Through Discourses of Health, Beauty, and Gender in Body Positivity
… of hashtag feminism a new group on social media, body positivity, has become the buzzword among celebrities, news conglomerates, and fashion companies. This study draws on interviews with body positive influencers and Instagram posts tagged #bodypositive and #fitspiration to examine the extent to …
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Tibial Acceleration and Shock Attenuation in Female and Male Distance Runners at Different Levels of Body Weight Unloading
… predictive of injury at the distal limb. Lower body positive pressure (LBPP) treadmills have become increasingly popular amongst athletes and practitioners to prevent and treat lower limb injuries by reducing effective body weight (BW) through mechanical support. The purpose of this thesis is to …
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The Thin Ideal and Body Positivity: How Do Influencers Affect Female Instagram Users?
… there has also been an increase of exposure to body image ideals via photos shared online. Accordingly, it has become more important to understand the association between social media and how its users view their body image, as well as how social media users’ practices are affected by posted …
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The Effects of Walking on the Alter-G® Treadmill on Fat Oxidation in Overweight/Obese Males
… To determine if a reduction of body weight from 100% to 75% while walking on a lower body positive pressure treadmill (LBPP) affects peak oxygen consumption (V̇O<sub>2peak</sub>), fat oxidation (FO), peak fat oxidation (PFO), respiratory exchange ratio (RER), heart rate (HR) and …
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In My Body
… and perceptions of beauty. With this body of work, I wanted to explore the idea of how I feel about myself living in a fat body and how that has affected my mental state. This thesis explores the emotional terrain of living as a fat woman, focusing on the intersection of societal …
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Influence of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) on Rostral Fluid Shift, and the Pathophysiology on Asthma
… fluid shift into the thorax induced by lower body positive pressure (LBPP) while supine provokes an increase in small airway resistance. However, whether fluid redistribution links OSA with asthma remains unknown. This thesis aimed to investigate the role of fluid accumulation in the thorax in …
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Social media and body image: It's complicated
Body image is an important dimension of life, and in a media-saturated world, we are supposedly surrounded by images of 'idealised' physical body types that are harmful to people's body image. Many theories have been put forward to account for the growing idealisation of 'thin' and 'toned' women …
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Investigating the Role of Denial in Interpersonal Formulations of Binge Eating Among Black and White College Women: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study
… eating, due to pressure to reflect historical body positive ideals and heightened stigma regarding mental health issues in Black communities. Denial is worthy of attention because, according to an interpersonal formulation of eating disorder maintenance and etiology, engaging in binge eating …