I was reading Seth Godin’s latest post.
It reminded me of the ban imposed on the super skinny models in Madrid.
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A few days ago in Madrid, it was announced that only healthy-looking mannequins would be permitted to strut their stuff at the city’s annual style event. Anyone with a body mass index of less than 18 was banned.
Now organisers of London Fashion Week, which begins on Monday, are being urged to impose similar rules. …..
But health agencies are adamant that legal steps must be taken to protect the health of the catwalk queens.
Steve Bloomfield, a spokesman for the Eating Disorders Association, said: “We do think legislation is needed.
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Have we really produced such feather brained persons that they have to be forced by law to eat a healthy diet? Will policemen sit on their dining tables to measure their calories? Or they have to reappear in a clinic to get a BMI and show it to the officials regularly?
I have just read a top pop star’s statement (few months back she was the most searched name in google) that her boyfriend really loves her, because when she had put on weight, he was still by her side.
Are we really living in the midst of these mentally sick people? A person’s worth is defined by his / her weight? Which hang out they will frequent will be decided by their weight? I will rather say a permanent bye to that place or person who measures me by my weight.
Seth has provided us two links
1) Weight Loss Community
2) Daily Plate
The first one helps us to remain motivated to stay slim and the second one tells us how to measure calories of what we are eating. Fair enough. But it should be hammered very clearly into everyone’s head that as long as we live, we will need our lungs, heart, kidneys, liver, eyes, legs, hands……….So staying fit and healthy in not a PROJECT. It’s a life long process. We have to take care of our body for the entire life and not till we shed that excess weight. Therefore healthy habits should be a daily routine and not a time bound assignment.
Righto.
Stay slim or
stay fit and healthy throughout life.
One step at a time……
healthy habits are a function of behavioural change…
http://www.cacr.ca/news/2002/0212elder.htm
see transtheoretical model, and interesting read..
absolutely….staying healthy should be of prime importance….always
” I will rather say a permanent bye to that place or person who measures me by my weight.”
Exactly: the idea is to stay healthy… whether you are fat or slim. But I believe that the BMI ban is good in its own way: it might help counteract the prejudices we have of seeing absolute bags of bones strut their stuff all the time.
I read somewhere some other country also imposed the same ban. I saw those models and they were too skinny same like people we see in darfur related news……