'I think a little bit of a kick is sometimes what you need': Women's accounts of whole-body scanning and likely impact on health-related behaviours.

Whole-body scanning may enable maintenance or even acceleration of physical activity and healthy eating, but is unlikely to be useful in promoting initiation of these behaviours. Participants engaged in unhelpful body critique when viewing scans; scanning needs to be confined to contexts where support is provided, to avoid increasing body-related concerns.