Posts Tagged ‘eating disorders’
Brazil the world’s most skinny-obsessed country
6:07 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Argentina| Brazil| Health| Latin America| Women · Comments Off
1 Mar 2007
According to a U.N. study released yesterday, it’s no wonder why women are dying of eating disorders in Brazil. Spain’s El País reports that the South American country is the world leader in production — and consumption — of weight loss drugs. They even beat the U.S.
The number of people in Brasil obsessed with achieving the perfect body is three times that of the United States. For the Brazilian Health Minister, the data from the report “is alarming”. The rise in consumption of weight loss products in Brazil could be attributed to, according to the U.N. report, the level of internal production, given that in 2005 98.5% of the total supply of the drug Anfepramona, used all over the world to lose weight, was made in Brazil.
According to the report, Argentina is a close second to Brazil in the consumption department, making them the second in the world for the use of appetite suppressants.
Via / El País
Spain changes sizes to help women’s health
5:51 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Health| Spain · 1 Comment
25 Jan 2007
Something great is going on in Spain: first the country’s most illustrious fashion show, Pasarela Cibeles banned ultra skinny models from the runways in an attempt to adjust the perception that being impossibly skinny is something women should aspire to. Now, the Spanish government is going a step further by requiring clothes companies to change the sizing system on clothes to better women’s health and self-esteem:
The program, designed by the Health Ministry, will also prevent those companies from using window displays featuring clothes smaller than a European size 38 (10 in Britain, 8 in the United States). They will have five years to phase in the change.
Supermodel says families to blame for anorexia
5:56 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil| Controversia| Health| Women · 1 Comment
19 Jan 2007
Sadly, posts on VL about Latina models or aspiring models dying from eating disorders are not uncommon. Now a supermodel (otherwise known as Leonardo DiCaprio’s ex) from a hotbed of these deaths, Brazil, is speaking out and pointing the finger at families, not the fashion world:
Supermodel Gisele Bundchen says weak families are to blame for anorexia — not the fashion industry that has been widely criticized for promoting waifish silhouettes.“I never suffered from this problem (anorexia) because I had a very strong family base. Parents are responsible, not the fashion industry,” she said in the Friday edition of O Globo newspaper.
I think that the fashion industry is to blame in the first place, for centering the universal ideal of beauty around impossibly thin models. Families are to blame as well, of course, but in many cases the victims hide the disease, and loved ones don’t find out until it’s too late.
Who do you think is to blame?
Via / Yahoo! Entertainment
Another aspiring model dies of anorexia in Brazil
2:43 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil| Controversia| Women · Comments Off
8 Jan 2007
Even after Brazilian modeling agencies signed a policy which restricts anorexic models from entering the profession, yet another woman has lost her life to the disease. Maiara Galvao Vieira, a 14 year-old aspiring model is the fifth Brazilian woman to die of complications related to anorexia in 3 months:
Galvao Vieira, who was 1.70 meters tall [about 5' 7"] and weighed about 38 kilograms [about 84 lbs.] was in the Miguel Couto hospital for over a month, after having been in three other public hospitals and no one being able to diagnose the disease.
And no, it wasn’t in some small town in Brazil, it was Rio de Janeiro. According to 20 Minutos, the victim’s parents say that she was so weak that she was unable to climb the stairs to her school.
Meanwhile, UK experts charge pro-anorexia websites with “literally killing people”.
Via / 20 Minutos
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