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Government Should Ban Skinny Models To Curb Anorexia, Say Researchers

Posted by timothy on from the too-fat-for-me dept.

smoothjazz writes "Governments are justified to prevent very skinny models from walking the catwalk and ban photographs and advertisements suggesting that extreme thinness is attractive, according to a group of researchers who found that social and cultural environment influences on young women is largely responsible for the spread of chronic eating disorder."

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  1. Re:Good luck, because... by Beardo+the+Bearded · · Score: 5, Informative

    Okay.

    I've got an eight-year-old girl. Every day I tell her that she's smart and strong and brave and beautiful, and that I love her, and that I'm proud of her. We've told her how they use computers to make models look different than in real life. (The Fotoshop by Adobé ad is great)

    Yet for all the work we do to tell her how incredible and awesome she is, there's a constant barrage of ads screaming that she's ugly and dumb and girls are wimpy.

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  2. Re:Actuarially, no. by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 5, Informative

    Then again, it is still better than a government run system, as I at least have choices of carriers and coverage.

    I'll just keep using the Swedish *evil* government-run *evil* healthcare system that puts an affordable clinic and pharmacy in nearly every borough of Stockholm, thanks.

    Who needs a false "choice" amongst "carriers" (= middle-men/profiteers) when I've already got a better deal than any US insurance company ever has given or is ever going to give me?

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