Dr. Robyn Silverman Jessica Simpson has been spotted ***gasp*** looking heavier than her ultra-skinny Dukes of Hazzard daisy-duke wearing self. Shall we call out the calvary? The farm? Has everyone gone insane? We just went through this whole thing with Jennifer Love Hewitt– didn’t we? Media outlets are shouting it from the roof tops– like [...]
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“Parents face a complicated situation,” Brownell says. “They have to promote healthy weight, but they also don’t want to change children into diet-crazed fanatics.” There was a great article in Time Magazine regarding the much discussed “thin and happy” vs. “fat and unhealthy” medical/media beef. A must read. The dilemma is born due to the [...]
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Do magazine diet articles make an impact on girls’ body image? In a 2007 issue of the Journal of Pediatrics, researchers from the University of Minnesota suggest that when teen girls read articles about diet and weight loss, it could have unhealthy consequences years later. Magazines feature impossibly thin supermodels next to “back-to-school” diet plans [...]
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