That'll fix 'em!

It flabbergasts me that people think you can legislate an illness away.

Quebec considering voluntary charter against anorexia, minister says

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  1. Rather than effecting anything of much substance toward helping people with eating disorders, such a charter or similar "legislation" almost makes *having* an eating disorder feel like a crime.

    If governments are going to set sights on anorexia as a public-health issue, then efforts would be better focused on funding, research, insurance coverage and reform, community support and programs, and treatment.

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  2. I wonder what the big excuse governments will come up with when there is no 'thin preaching fashion industry' making us wicked wicked children get eating disorders.
    I sincerely wish there we're more people like you in the higher ups to make people listen to what works instead of what sounds like it might maybe make sense.

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  3. As stupid as some things people do "against eating disorders" - I'm an optimist - I believe the tide is turning toward a better understanding of the illness and therefore better treatment.

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  4. I think the legislation against super-thin models is a great idea, not because it will decrease eating disorder rates, but because it will force the fashion industry to no longer mandate illness (anorexia) as an employment qualification. It's a matter of worker rights.

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