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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 PaÃs 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 PaÃs
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
Latino men to get an eyefull
3:24 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Lifestyle|Magazines · Comments Off
3 Nov 2005
Following in the steps of Maxim and FHM, a new wave of magazines aimed at the red-blooded Latino male are hitting newsstands:
On the cover of this fall’s Fuego, the quarterly magazine’s second issue, Colombian actress Paola Rey also stares enticingly at prospective buyers. She holds her cascading hair back with one hand and tucks the other ever so slightly in the folds of her saffron strapless swimsuit.
Only creative angles and dainty pieces of clothing separate these photos and the more explicit ones inside from the photos in these magazines’ X-rated counterparts. But this appears to be why King, aimed at African American men, and Fuego, aimed at Hispanic men, have been steadily building followers among young minority males who see them as alternatives to “lad” magazines such as Maxim, Stuff and FHM that feature mostly Caucasian women.
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