Dozens of TikTok users in recent weeks have reported an unnerving rise in the number of “body checking” videos dominating their For You Pages (FYP). The latest trend to encourage a hyper-focus on the ...

In June of this year, TikTok banned the hashtag #SkinnyTok—an effort to limit the prevalence of harmful weight-loss content that had gradually carved out its own subculture on the app. But since then, ...

Do you stop to examine your reflection regularly? Or turn your attention to one particular area of your body with laser focus? These types of behaviors may fall under body checking. It’s a compulsive ...

For every fun dance challenge on TikTok, a far more sinister trend goes viral. In this case, it's body checking. Body checking is the act of taking mental notes of one's body shape or weight. Offline, ...

Rachel Fairbank is a freelance science writer based in Texas. When she is not writing, she can be found spending time with her family, or at her local boxing gym. June 8, 2022 Add as a preferred ...

In the fitness and weight loss communities, progress photos, body fat measurements and other "non-scale victories" are touted as healthy alternatives to obsessively checking the scale. For some people ...

Correspondence to Dr Paul Eliason, Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; pheliaso{at}ucalgary.ca Objectives To compare rates ...

Objectives The objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of policy change disallowing body checking in adolescent ice hockey leagues (ages 15–17) on reducing rates of injury and concussion.

For every fun dance challenge on TikTok, a far more sinister trend goes viral. In this case, it's body checking. Body checking doesn’t have to be obvious to be dangerous, either. Often it’s hiding in ...