Eating Disorders

tags: blog carnivals, carnival of eating disorders, eating disorders The latest edition of the Carnival of Eating Disorders is now available for you to enjoy. As you might know, eating disorders affect many people, either directly or indirectly. This blog carnival included an essay that I wrote, so be sure to go there and read it as well as their many wonderful pieces.

I guess they are really serious: The organizers of Spain's top annual fashion show on Sunday rejected five out of 69 fashion models as being too thin to appear in this year's event, acting on a decision to bar underweight women from the catwalk. The show, known as the Pasarela Cibeles, decided in September 2005 not to allow women below a body mass to height ratio of 18 to take part. One of the rejected models had only reached a ratio of 16, the equivalent of being 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing less than 110 pounds, said Dr. Susana Monereo, of Madrid Getafe hospital's endocrinology and…

Recently this model, Gisele Bundchen, speculated that the fashion industry is not to blame for anorexia. Rather parents are to blame: Gisele Bundchen has entered Brazil's growing debate over anorexia, saying families are to blame _ not the fashion industry. "I never suffered this problem because I had a very strong family base," the supermodel told the local Globo newspaper on Friday. "The parents are responsible, not fashion." Top model Giselle Bundchen wears a creation part of the Colcci fall-winter fashion collection during the Fashion Rio 2007, in Rio de Janeiro, Friday, Jan 19, 2007.…