France bans super-skinny models in anorexia clampdown

Started by jimmy olsen, April 05, 2015, 06:36:55 PM

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garbon

#30
April 06, 2015, 05:25:57 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on April 06, 2015, 05:24:49 AM
Seems like the same objections could be made for any "plus size" models. But it's really about making fat people feel better about ourselves, not about the health of the models.

Are plus size models a common thing on French runways?
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#31
April 06, 2015, 05:33:53 AM
They're a common thing in catalogs.
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#32
April 06, 2015, 06:15:54 AM
Quote from: garbon on April 06, 2015, 05:25:57 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on April 06, 2015, 05:24:49 AM
Seems like the same objections could be made for any "plus size" models. But it's really about making fat people feel better about ourselves, not about the health of the models.

Are plus size models a common thing on French runways?

Why are french runways the sole criteria you mention for evaluating body types?
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#33
April 06, 2015, 06:45:01 AM
Quote from: Martinus on April 06, 2015, 12:48:33 AM
I gained weight and my BMI is now nearly 27. :(

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celedhring

#34
April 06, 2015, 07:34:38 AM
I *lost* weight and my BMI is nearly 32. :(

garbon

#35
April 06, 2015, 07:54:48 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on April 06, 2015, 05:33:53 AM
They're a common thing in catalogs.

I bow to your knowledge of European catalogs. :blush:
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jimmy olsen

#36
April 06, 2015, 08:02:47 AM
BMI is 24.2 and has been around there since I was about 17 with the exception of the 19-20 years for obvious reasons.
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Sheilbh

#38
April 06, 2015, 08:56:39 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on April 06, 2015, 12:44:36 AM
It's also occasionally untrue; I slip into BMI>25 every now and again. :weep:
:console: You and me both. I did the calculation today and I'm 25.4 :bleeding:

I found this tool appropriately shaming:
http://www.nhs.uk/tools/pages/healthyweightcalculator.aspx
With its bolded all-caps OVERWEIGHT :blush:
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#39
April 06, 2015, 09:22:04 AM
Quote from: Sheilbh on April 06, 2015, 08:56:39 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on April 06, 2015, 12:44:36 AM
It's also occasionally untrue; I slip into BMI>25 every now and again. :weep:
:console: You and me both. I did the calculation today and I'm 25.4 :bleeding:

I found this tool appropriately shaming:
http://www.nhs.uk/tools/pages/healthyweightcalculator.aspx
With its bolded all-caps OVERWEIGHT :blush:

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#40
April 06, 2015, 09:33:58 AM
Quote from: Sheilbh on April 06, 2015, 08:56:39 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on April 06, 2015, 12:44:36 AM
It's also occasionally untrue; I slip into BMI>25 every now and again. :weep:
:console: You and me both. I did the calculation today and I'm 25.4 :bleeding:

I found this tool appropriately shaming:
http://www.nhs.uk/tools/pages/healthyweightcalculator.aspx
With its bolded all-caps OVERWEIGHT :blush:

38.7

No surprise. Although since I reached my full height I've never been as low as 12st 12lb which is supposed to be the maximum healthy weight for my body height. Yet when I was 19 (just before I went to University) my ribs were showing which I, personally, would consider a sign of being underweight. :hmm:
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#41
April 06, 2015, 12:13:47 PM
This is the most retarded thing ever.
Why does the goverment have to intervine and regulate this?
How are they going to enforced? More buracracy and more taxpayer expenditure.


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garbon

#42
April 06, 2015, 12:17:25 PM
Quote from: Agelastus on April 06, 2015, 09:33:58 AM
Quote from: Sheilbh on April 06, 2015, 08:56:39 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on April 06, 2015, 12:44:36 AM
It's also occasionally untrue; I slip into BMI>25 every now and again. :weep:
:console: You and me both. I did the calculation today and I'm 25.4 :bleeding:

I found this tool appropriately shaming:
http://www.nhs.uk/tools/pages/healthyweightcalculator.aspx
With its bolded all-caps OVERWEIGHT :blush:

38.7

No surprise. Although since I reached my full height I've never been as low as 12st 12lb which is supposed to be the maximum healthy weight for my body height. Yet when I was 19 (just before I went to University) my ribs were showing which I, personally, would consider a sign of being underweight. :hmm:

Sounds like you overshot the mark? :hmm:
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Martinus

#43
April 06, 2015, 12:20:16 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on April 06, 2015, 08:02:47 AM
BMI is 24.2 and has been around there since I was about 17 with the exception of the 19-20 years for obvious reasons.

How old are you Tim?

Agelastus

#44
April 06, 2015, 02:19:24 PM
Quote from: garbon on April 06, 2015, 12:17:25 PM
Sounds like you overshot the mark? :hmm:

Several marks, probably, if you look at it like that! :)

For one thing, I'm over the weight limit of most of the exercise bikes sold on Amazon! :lol:
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