France’s lower house of parliament on Friday passes a law banning excessively thin fashion models, threatening modelling agencies and fashion houses with fines and even jail if they hire malnourished women. The bill was widely debated in the lower house, with dissenters saying it would give foreign models an advantage in the industry. Socialist MP Olivier Veran, who spearheaded the bill, said new measures would require models to undergo a full medical assessment Continue reading…
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France votes to ban ultra-thin models in crackdown on anorexia
Modelling agencies protest as those employing models considered too thin face fines of up to €75,000 and six months in prisonFrench MPs have approved tough measures in an attempt to combat anorexia that will make it a crime for fashion agencies to use dangerously thin or undernourished models. Members of the lower house of parliament also voted on Friday for measures that will make it illegal to promote anorexia on the internet and will oblige agencies to clearly mark all photographs of models that have been retouched to alter their body shape. Continue reading…
Saturated fat & CHD in Europe
This post shows that, for all 192 countries in the world, for men and women, for CVD deaths and all-cause mortality, the HIGHER the cholesterol levels, the LOWER the death rate; the LOWER the cholesterol levels, the HIGHER the death rate. The Pearson correlation coefficient gets higher as we move from male CVD deaths to female CVD deaths to male all deaths to female all deaths. This blog repeats the exercise of examining the association between heart disease (this time CHD) and an accused causal agent (this time saturated fat). The data is available for Europe here [Ref 1]. As you can see below, the association is again inverse – the higher the saturated fat intake, the lower the CHD death rate for males… and females… The