The subtext of the article seems to be that anorexia is a worse public health problem than obesity.
How is that? How does tackling one prevent tackling the other? Or even trade off from it?
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#22This law should be good for the careers of models who actually are nearly perfect looking.
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#23> any commercial image that has been digitally altered to make a model look thinner
This will backfire. Ads will only use ultra-thin models, it's not like there aren't.
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#24In the United States, Obesity is one of the leading causes of death, with estimates as high as 300,000 deaths/year. (See https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html ) Deaths from Anorexia are about 150/year (See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11513012 ) Yet we're all hypersensitive about telling women they are overweight or obese. It would be like spending weeks in urban schools talking about how to avoid poison…
I'm sympathetic to your point, but there are effects other than death. Low self esteem has its own problems.
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#25In the United States, Obesity is one of the leading causes of death, with estimates as high as 300,000 deaths/year. (See https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html ) Deaths from Anorexia are about 150/year (See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11513012 ) Yet we're all hypersensitive about telling women they are overweight or obese. It would be like spending weeks in urban schools talking about how to avoid poison…
>Yet we're all hypersensitive about telling women they are overweight or obese.
Probably because that offends/annoys more people (300,000 over 150 times more) than warning about anorexia.
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#26> It's no secret that images of models are often retouched Well it's not a secret, but it's not obvious for most teenagers. And may be not either for people without high degrees education. A lot of people, and I suppose not only in France, are not at peace with their body shape, even if they're not obese nor anorexic. Been exposed to not really existing bodies images can be painful for self esteem. Of course, compute…
> Well it's not a secret, but it's not obvious for most teenagers.
Fair enough but the list of things that can harm a teen's self esteem is endless. So in a way there is no way around learning how to deal with issues of imperfection on a personal level. And this, in turn, makes you wonder whether you couldn't spend the money that goes into this project more worthwhile. For instance, you could invest it in free sport programs. That way teens wouldn't just improve their body image but also do something for their health.
IMHO these kind of initiatives are mostly egotrips of people who want to make their mark.
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#27Of course she is photoshopped. All photos you see in magazines are by default heavily photoshopped, even of "flawless" models. You literally don't see a single photo straight out of the camera where retouching wasn't applied when it comes to women.
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#28that's it I'm investing in thinning mirrors.
Same reason the photo app/features of instagram and snapchat took off, makes people look really good or even better than they expect themselves with filters etc.
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#29In the United States, Obesity is one of the leading causes of death, with estimates as high as 300,000 deaths/year. (See https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html ) Deaths from Anorexia are about 150/year (See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11513012 ) Yet we're all hypersensitive about telling women they are overweight or obese. It would be like spending weeks in urban schools talking about how to avoid poison…
As a French person: stop subsidizing corn, start subsidizing vegetables, stop eating take-out.
If you look at a middle-class supermarket in France and in the US you understand why your poor are obese pretty quickly.
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#30Good, now if only they would do the same for male models who use illegal performance enhancing drugs to achieve their physiques. According to many male fitness models, anyone who earns money based on their body is almost guaranteed to be using them.
I find it really strange how the topic of "enhanced" male models never comes up, but these articles about women pop up several times a year.