It’s Saturday morning in the locker room at my gym, and the world’s largest scale–a gargantuan, silver-coated shrine to the goddess of weight loss–is getting a major workout. I watch helplessly as one ...

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After an onslaught of criticism on social media and from conservative media organizations, a Canadian university may reconsider the decision to remove a scale from its campus gym. The outrage erupted ...

Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, removed the scale from its gym earlier this month, The Charlatan reports. In its place is now a sign encouraging students to look at other barometers of health ...

If weighing yourself makes you stressed out, should scales disappear from gyms? A Canadian university is under scrutiny for removing a scale from its fitness center, with the controversy focused on a ...

It’s hard to overstate the naïveté at the heart of Carleton University’s initial decision to remove the scale from its fitness room at the athletic centre. The move, ostensibly “keeping with current ...

Carleton University has reconsidered its decision to remove a scale from the gym after a torrent of pointed commentary and media coverage from as far as the U.K. The decision to remove the scale ...

A Canadian university has come under fire on social media for removing scales from the campus gym. Two weeks ago Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, replaced a scale in its gym with a sign ...