24-11-2013, 06:50 PM
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New Diet Fad ...
... and it's called the cotton wool 'diet'.That's the stark warning from health experts after a teen girl from the US uploaded a video of herself trying to eat cotton balls soaked in orange juice - a tactic models use (allegedly) to stay thin.
Bria Murphy, the 23-year-old daughter of Eddie, talked about her experience seeing other models chowing down on cotton wool to stay skinny. And she's not the first.
Tell-all books by models and other fashion insiders have referenced this strange behaviour and now it seems ordinary women are trying it to solve their own weight loss problems.
Eating non-edible objects such as cotton wool can cause them to build up in your intestines forming a trapped mass called a bezoar. This can be life threatening.
Should governments take a much firmer stance with the fashion industry given the physical and mental damage caused to young girls trying to emulate what they see on tv and in the press? Spain and Italy banned underweight models (who generally have the waist size of an 8 year old girl) but Britain and France refused.
Do you think it is the fashion industry, the media or something else that is failing these young, impressionable girls?
A question to the men: do you (and be truthful!) prefer a female with curves or a female with a very slim, toned body?
http://uk.lifestyle.yahoo.com/cotton...6730.html?vp=1
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...ro-models.html
24-11-2013, 06:56 PM
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Re: New Diet Fad ...
This isn't new I remember two of the girls at my school were taken to hospital on more than one occasion came out in the end they had been eating tissues and cotton wool to keep their weight down. They were both wanting to be ballerinas. but needed to lose weight for the lifts.
24-11-2013, 07:10 PM
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Re: New Diet Fad ...
Originally Posted by Julie1962
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This isn't new I remember two of the girls at my school were taken to hospital on more than one occasion came out in the end they had been eating tissues and cotton wool to keep their weight down. They were both wanting to be ballerinas. but needed to lose weight for the lifts.
My cousin trained as a ballerina but when she grew a bit too tall and got a tad too heavy, my aunt told her that ballet was clearly not for her - turns out she was a wise woman then.
24-11-2013, 07:11 PM
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Re: New Diet Fad ...
Originally Posted by Alan Cooke
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Why oh why do people abuse their own bodies. They should be looking after them, after all, you only get the one.
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