More than half of Instagram’s top fitness influencers promote dubious information

Flinders University associate professor Ivanka Prichard, one of the study’s co-authors, says her findings raise concerns that many accounts claiming to promote health and fitness post images of an objectified and sexualized nature and unrelated to fitness. Loading She explains that a culture of thinness in the media has influenced the types of images we see in the health and wellness space. We have internalized this subtle ideal and equated thinness with health. But we know that all kinds of body shapes can be healthy, she continues. It’s more about…

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