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Is she Photoshopped? In France, they now have to tell you
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Re: Is she Photoshopped? In France, they now have to tell you
#42In 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.
Also smoking is very normalised in many parts of the world, thanks to American lobbying. I really wish more countries would follow Australia's lead on smoking legislation. Smoking kills ~500,000 a year[1].
> It would be like spending weeks in urban schools talking about how to avoid poisonous snake bites and spending 15 minutes on automobile safety.
As an aside, in Australia we teach both (not to mention spider, tick, blue bottle, jellyfish, and octopus safety).
[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/heal...
Re: Is she Photoshopped? In France, they now have to tell you
#43In 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.
Not just France, but most European countries.. every time I travel in Europe there's always this initial realization that I'm no longer surrounded by obese people. None of the places I've been to over there encourage the same eating habits that you find prevalent in the US.
Re: Is she Photoshopped? In France, they now have to tell you
#44Reminds of the Fast Food ads here in the US. Looks Gourmet on TV while the real thing is not even close.
>Reminds of the Fast Food ads here in the US. Looks Gourmet on TV while the real thing is not even close.
In that case there should be a warning that what is in the images isn't even edible (often wax and plastic replicas are used in photo shoots and videos), and even if the food is real almost anything is added to it to make it look better JFY:
https://petapixel.com/2012/08/02/random-things-you-can-use-t...
Re: Is she Photoshopped? In France, they now have to tell you
#45The subtext of the article seems to be that anorexia is a worse public health problem than obesity.
it may not be a worse public health problem, but eating disorders, especially anorexia, have the highest fatality rate of any mental health disorder. source - https://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/directors/thomas-insel/blog/2...
Obesity has the highest co-morbidity of any mental health disorder.
Re: Is she Photoshopped? In France, they now have to tell you
#46In 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…
Obese people make jobs in fast food and healthcare, anorexic people don't buy much and are bad for the economy
Re: Is she Photoshopped? In France, they now have to tell you
#47This will probably just end up being another warning that is stuck on everywhere, and doesn't mean much. Just like the "we use cookies" popup, or all the "x may cause cancer" warnings, it is easier to just add the warning than change the product/advertisement.
Re: Is she Photoshopped? In France, they now have to tell you
#48I'm disappointed and appalled how this headline is in gross violation of Adobe®'s General trademark guidelines ( http://www.adobe.com/legal/permissions/trademarks.html ). It should read "Is her image enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software? [...]" Maybe that's the next thing that should be legally enforced somewhere in this world.
No the error is using a capital P in photoshopped. The act of photoshopping is a generic term, I use The GIMP or Draw for my photoshopping.
By making it a capital P the suggesting only those editing their photos with Adobe Photoshop will have to mark their photos as altered.
Re: Is she Photoshopped? In France, they now have to tell you
#49In 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…
Can you relate your comment to the article? What does obesity have to do with fake body shapes?
Re: Is she Photoshopped? In France, they now have to tell you
#50In 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…
What is your point here, beyond "Fat people are fat"? Do you believe that obese women don't know they're fat? What would telling them they're fat accomplish? None of this makes sense and it's just an excuse to be unkind.
TFA is about France targeting advertising that is known to cause anorexia. GP's point is that (in the US) obesity is a much larger issue and should have far more resources put into tackling that problem. Not being allowed to advertise to minors would be one idea. But since TFA is about France the situation is different.
Your comment is a perfect example of being hypersensitive about this issue. As someone who used to be obese, I find it quite horrifying that more isn't being done to protect children from harmful advertising. I'm lucky that I found my motivation to combat my weight problems in my late teens, many people aren't so fortunate.