When I was a middle school student in the 1980s, a girl in my class presented a book report on Judy Blume’s “Blubber.” As the only fat kid in my class, I wouldn’t have been caught dead ...

She starved herself, eating nothing for 17 out of 30 days, too hungry to sleep, too consumed by “brain fog” to reason, to connect with her husband and baby daughter, to “be an agent.” All of this ...

Police in Great Barrington were recently called to a local middle school after receiving a complaint of a sexually explicit book being shown to students, but authorities determined no laws had ...

Being fat in middle age may slash women's chances of making it to their golden years in good health by almost 80 percent, a new study says. American researchers observed more than 17,000 female ...

Last week, Long Island’s Centereach High School came under fire after a teacher passed out body-shaming reference materials in a fashion design class. Titled “How Not to Look Fat,” the ...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) – A former North Kingstown High School student said he was 13 years old when he started undergoing “naked fat tests,” introducing a key element in the case ...

After a parent's complaint, a school district in Utah banned the Bible from middle and elementary schools for containing "vulgarity or violence" inappropriate for the age group.