Filed under: Fashion
Size zero is coming to British shops to cater for the new stick-insect look. A generation of dangerously thin girls will be dying for the new fashion. Anorexia will be hip, even though they won’t have any.
This is insanity. It reminds me of Medieval monks indulging in self-flagellation so that their bodies could ape the latest craze – the scourging of Christ before Crucifixion. Masochism rules, the body pained. But just as those monks were encouraged to hurt themselves because of a culture of denial, could modern culture be offering those girls a subtle helping hand too?
I am a long term M.E. sufferer and a couple of years ago I decided to help my situation by changing my diet. I went on to five small meals a day, changed white bread for wholegrain, increased omega 3 intake and added my five-a-day of fruit of veg.
I’m on this regime permanently now and it has been of great benefit. I would recommend it to anyone. But it wasn’t long before I noticed something strange happening to my body. My weight began to fall off to the point that I was in danger of looking skeletal. I didn’t hit size zero, but it was clear that my body/mass index was becoming dangerously wrong.
Could it be that the modern healthy food regime is not as healthy as we think? It appears there may be an unspoken truth here that needs to be spoken. It may not just be the fashion industry that is causing the size zero kids, but the health evangelists themselves.
I’ve reversed my weight loss by keeping the healthy regime but supplementing it with sausages and pies. Maybe a healthy balanced diet needs a little bit of what is bad for you too. Those girls need to know that before size zero becomes zero life.
© Anthony North, Feb 2007
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