Posts with tag bulimia

Here's a fun game! Let's apply the same unattainable body standards to male stars. Yo, Leo! You're getting a little loose there in the jowls!

Here's a quick answer to that question. If you're on the cover of US Weekly, with the headline "TOO THIN FOR TV" across your chest? Then you absolutely are too thin.

This month's Teen Vogue features an article on orthorexia, which experts say is an obsession with eating only "good" foods.

Orthorexics may stick to a stringent raw-foods diet, become obsessed with their sodium intake, or even subsist on homemade, organic baby food. (In other words, orthorexics are consumed by their food, rather than the other way around.)

One girl quoted in Teen Vogue even says, ""I can't help but look down on my friends when they give in to temptations like pizza or ice cream."

With all the semi-recent news about models being banned from fashion shows across Europe for being underweight and potentially affecting young girls' images of themselves, it's natural to assume that the obsession with being thin is a female-only problem. However, medical researchers are discovering that the idea of starving oneself in order to achieve the perfect "thin" body has spread to the male population.

According to a feature story by ABC News, the American Journal of Psychiatry reports that "the ratio of males suffering from eating disorders may be increasing...experts estimate that 1 million American men suffer from anorexia." It's certainly understandable that young girls were being bombarded by rail-thin models in fashion magazines and celebrities, but apparently the same sort of things applies to boys and men who are becoming increasingly aware of physique because of sports, the rising number of men's fashion magazines, and super-thin male celebrities like Billy Bob Thornton.

Hey, men, I don't think I'm alone in thinking that I like men to look like big, strong men, not skeletons. Eat healthy, okay?

In a move that could have models making midnight runs for chili cheese fries, Madrid's fashion week has caused an uproar in the fashion industry by banning underweight models from the runways. The city's government and event organizers say that the restriction is an effort to to project an image of beauty and health rather than flaunting rail-thin, waif-like heroin-chic as desirable for girls and young women. The event has hired medics to measure models and calculate BMI. So far, 30% of the models have been turned away.

The fashion industry, however, is not supportive of the move, especially since Letizia Moratti, the mayor of Milan, is also seeking a similar ban.

Gee, would it kill those 30% to just, oh, I don't know, put some dressing on their lettuce?!?!