About 250,000 youth suffer from eating disorders in this country. Dr Rachel Adato submitted a law in the Knesset forbidding the employment of underfed models: A 170 cm tall girl has to weight 53 kg or more, and any slimming down by photoshopping is to be clearly indicated. Does the "ideal body" image affect the eating habits of real life girls? Seems probable. And the models of the fifties sure looked different (pic). Today, those stars would be thought of as very fat. In those days
people was slim and the
models fat - a paradox. Today we are fighting fat while the models are starving skeletons. Lets hope it works.
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I thought her remarks about how any model with a BMI of 17 must be vomiting her meals were incredibly parochial.
Sorry friend but I dont get the meaning of your comment.
pa·ro·chi·al (p-rk-l)
adj.
1. Of, relating to, supported by, or located in a parish.
2. Of or relating to parochial schools.
3. Narrowly restricted in scope or outlook; provincial: parochial attitudes.
The third definition, of course. She can't imagine that there are some girls who are just like that, naturally.
The modern emaciated models, who do not look anything like women, do not represent an image of fertility.
Just look, eg, at the Weekend Financial Times, on the "fashion" pages; these women not only look androgynous, they look very, very ill.
Why then would we, alone, as a culture, glamorize them as an image?
Because the fashion industry is controlled by men who are not interested in having children.
Once a woman drops her BMI below about 18, she stops her menstrual cycling and is at least temporarily infertile; this is simply nature's way of preventing a pregnancy in the absence of sufficient calories.
This is an important part of a general anti-childbearing culture, which is leading inexorably to demographic collapse in the West.
I completely agree with regulating this abuse out of the system, not least of all in the interests of these young girls as well, who need adults to protect them.
This is the problem with the West; there are not enough adults, in the real sense of the term. We do not care enough about children, because we do not care enough about the future.
As it is, this legislation is too little too late; but better than nothing.
Anon.
IHTG, There are no healthy girls like those models, under BMI=18 As said by Anon, they dont menstruate and are obsessed by food. It is a very serious mental disease.
Anorexia is a plague of the rich, so it is a tribute to Israel's economy that you have this problem now. In the shtetls, there was no anorexia, only starvation - people admired the few rich people who were fat and wished that they could afford to be fat too.
When I think of starving Jews I think of katzetniks and ghetto inmates. I don't think I could ever in a million years have explained to my father why someone would starve himself (or really herself since this seems to be mainly a female ailment) amidst plenty.
K
Nowadays the disease is not restricted to adolescent girls but it strikes at any age and any gender. It is something of an epidemy.
Note the tiny print at lower left: "Errol Flynn's Cover Choice." He certainly loved the ladies...
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