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Desperate to be thin? Cult show blamed for middle-age anorexia ('Desperate Housewives')
The Scotsman ^

Posted on 08/24/2005 3:31:05 AM PDT by traumer

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1 posted on 08/24/2005 3:31:05 AM PDT by traumer
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Help me here.

People want to emmulate "Desperate" lives? Those gals have miserable lives on that show. Who wants that for themselves?


2 posted on 08/24/2005 3:35:31 AM PDT by lunatic12
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"programme showing older women who are attractive and have rampant love lives "

:o)


3 posted on 08/24/2005 3:38:08 AM PDT by traumer
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It's the same old story -- we're told by the media and a lot of men that men only value women under 25 who are 6 feet tall and weigh 100 lbs. and have 38DD enhancements. They used to call that "Barbie Syndrome." Women with bums and thighs who can't find a thing at the Gap that will go up above their knees tend to panic and the rest is anorexia.

Sad, really. I'm aging naturally and I'd guess I'm one of the few in my office who is.


4 posted on 08/24/2005 3:39:43 AM PDT by KateatRFM
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At some point, someone has to take a step back and just call a spade a spade: Some women are stupid. They have chosen to take no control over their lives and they've been this way from the start.


5 posted on 08/24/2005 3:43:56 AM PDT by rabidralph
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Every disorder has to have a cause attributed to modern day life. Why don't they just say these anorexics and bulemics are screwed in the head?


6 posted on 08/24/2005 3:50:54 AM PDT by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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They just want to "have rampant love lives"....


7 posted on 08/24/2005 3:54:23 AM PDT by traumer
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I just read somewhere where the women on that show all wear sizes "in the single digits". One of the women (don't know their names 'cause I don't watch the show) they know for sure wears a "0" because they provided her clothes for a photo shoot.


8 posted on 08/24/2005 4:16:07 AM PDT by LibSnubber (liberal democrats are domestic terrorists)
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I wish to God women still looked as good as they did from the 30's through the 60's. Renee Zellwigger & Hillary Skank -put them next to Barbara Stanwyck , Loretta Young,Shelly Winters, & Sophia Loren in their prime. I rest my case. And, other than the luscious Sandra Bullock & a bleak handful of others, all women in Hollywood look alike today.


9 posted on 08/24/2005 4:17:44 AM PDT by The Foolkiller ( Why......That sounds.....FOOLish!)
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To: traumer

"No Fat Chicks"


10 posted on 08/24/2005 4:18:24 AM PDT by dakine
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a fourfold increase in the number of women aged between 30 and 50 seeking treatment for anorexia

Four times *what*? From 2 patients to 8 patients is a "fourfold increase."

11 posted on 08/24/2005 4:40:56 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Oklahoma is the cultural center of the universe ... take me back to Tulsa!)
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Doesn't it seem the media speeds a lot of time discussing the subject of weight. Either people are dieing from obesity or kicking off from anorexia or barfing too much with bulimia. Do you think that just maybe the media is a major participate in all these problems? They are always going on about the newest diet of the day then put out a million ads for fattening food and afterwords wring their hands over people who refuse to eat. The whole thing is insane.


12 posted on 08/24/2005 4:58:54 AM PDT by foolscap
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Typical liberal. It is always someone else's fault. No one is ever responsible for themselves.


13 posted on 08/24/2005 5:02:00 AM PDT by Jeff Gordon (Recall Barbara Boxer)
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Could it simply be that the former anorexic and bulimic teens of a few years ago has simply gotten older?


14 posted on 08/24/2005 5:10:25 AM PDT by CajunConservative
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"There is a 20 per cent mortality rate among women with eating disorders and there is no evidence to suggest their illness has been driven by vanity.

This is a really odd statement, following several paragraphs defining precisely that...

15 posted on 08/24/2005 5:25:44 AM PDT by Publius6961 (Liberal level playing field: If the Islamics win we are their slaves..if we win they are our equals.)
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What this article doesn't say, is that some of these "desperate housewife" types are taking the Ritalin (amphetamines) prescribed for their children.

They cut back on the meds for the kids, clean the house like a bat out of hell, and talk non stop. All while losing weight.

DH taught many women how to do this :(

16 posted on 08/24/2005 5:36:00 AM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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17 posted on 08/24/2005 5:38:46 AM PDT by alnick
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What this article doesn't say, is that some of these "desperate housewife" types are taking the Ritalin (amphetamines) prescribed for their children.


Then Ritalin will soon be banned.


18 posted on 08/24/2005 5:55:57 AM PDT by after dark
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"They're also thin and it puts pressure on women in their thirties, forties and fifties to think that it is possible to have this glamorous lifestyle and a great sex life if you're skinny," he added.

It's true.

I like the skinny chicks.

19 posted on 08/24/2005 5:57:09 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Islam is merely Nazism without the snappy fashion sense.)
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"There is a 20 per cent mortality rate among women with eating disorders "

That's quite good. For most women the mortality rate is 100%

20 posted on 08/24/2005 6:19:21 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Can a Book establish a moral code, just because a bright-eyed attention-seeker does good deeds?)
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