MEDUSA'S BOOKSTORE

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In my Amazon bookstore,which is featured at the bottom of this page, are many highly-rated books dealing with eating disorders, body image, depression, suicide, and self-harm.

Any Amazon book may be purchased using the Amazon shopping cart in my bookstore.

If there are any books that you would recommend and would like to see added to my store, please send me an e-mail. Thanks!

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BONES OF CONTENTION ON THE CATWALK...

Brazilian model, Ana Carolina Reston, participates in a fashion show in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, on April 14, 2005. Reston, a 21-year-old anorexic model who weighed only 88 pounds died on Tuesday Nov. 14, 2006 of complications related to anorexia nervosa (AP Photo/Eugenio Savio)

"Should ultra-skinny models be banned? The fashion industry claims it is being unfairly pillaged for the 'size 0' phenomenon. But self regulation has done little to weed out emaciated models.

"They have to understand that being thin is our job", states one size 0 model.

But following the death of anorexic model, Ana Carolina Reston, designers are coming under pressure not to use skinny models. Spain banned ultra-thin models from Madrid Fashion Week after complaints they encouraged anorexia.

"We didn't want teenagers to think excessive slimness is a model of beauty", explains organizer Cuca Solana. But other fashion capitals refuse to follow Spain's lead.

"The whole size 0 thing has come from Hollywood not the catwalks", complains Hilary Riva, Chief Executive of London Fashion Week. "It's too simplistic to blame fashion..."

Alice McCall

Australian designer, ALICE McCALL, reveals herself to be one idiotic twit in the video when she compares starving people in Africa to models suffering from eating disorders.

To view my previous posts on Ana Carolina Reston, please click here:

ANA CAROLINA RESTON: SHE WAS YOUNG, BEAUTIFUL & STARVED TO DEATH

To read more about Ana Carolina Reston and other models who have died from anorexia and/or bulimia, please click on the links below:

HOW MANY MODELS HAVE TO DIE ?

ARE THINNESS LAWS TOO HEAVY-HANDED?

FRANCE TABLES NEW "ANOREXIA" LAW

ABC NEWS FLASH !!! GOOD MORNING AMERICA and 20/20 REPORT ON THE DEADLY KIMKINS DIET SCAM, HEIDI DIAZ/KIMMER and ANOREXIA NERVOSA

The Guardian also has an excellent article about Ana Carolina Reston here:

http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/fashion/story/0,,1987945,00.html

LINKS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJt4YvBQ3p8 http://urbanfashionista.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/look-book-alice-mccall/
www.daylife.com/photo/0faYeJW0k77eK

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ANOREXIA RETOUCHED...

Millions of girls and young women are starving themselves to death by sculpting their bodies through starvation in an effort to emulate the bodies of models in the fashion industry.

Catwalks and magazines are full of images of models who look like they're knocking on death's door, and these emaciated models, some as young as 14, have become the icons of many young girls and women suffering from anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and those following the pro ana/pro mia lifestyle.

What those starving girls and women don't realize is that many of those photographs have been digitally altered. The bodies of the women in those altered photos are so thin that the only way a girl or woman could attain that "look" would be by dying and, tragically, many have.

This video shows the real images of the models and then the fake digitally-altered images....an example of Photoshop being used in a most reprehensible way:





National Eating Disorders Awareness Week started yesterday, February 24th, and runs through March 8th, 2008.

If anyone you know is suffering from an Eating Disorder, please visit Joanna Poppink's blog here for more information on these horrific diseases:

http://eatingdisorderstoday.typepad.com/



LINK:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LLM7UueffEo&feature=related

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ANA CAROLINA RESTON: SHE WAS YOUNG, BEAUTIFUL & STARVED TO DEATH...

Ana Carolina Reston (before anorexia)

Ana Carolina Reston (after)

Ana Carolina Reston began modelling in her native Brazil at the age of 13, and was one of the most beautiful models in the world. At 5 feet 8 inches (172 cm), she was a fixture on the covers of fashion magazines and the catwalks of Brazil, Japan, and Hong Kong. Designers loved her...especially Giorgio Armani & Dior, who both featured her in their collections.


While in China, in 2004, Ana Carolina was told that she was "too fat." From that utterance, she began the downward spiral into anorexia, and at the end her diet consisted of only apples and tomatoes.




Ana Carolina's BMI plummeted to 13.4, which is below starvation level. On October 23, 2006, she was admitted to hospital, weighing only 88 pounds (40 kg).

On November 14, 2006, she died of complications due to kidney failure as a result of complications of anorexia and bulimia, at the age of 21 years.

From guardian.co.uk:

"Reston was admitted to the Samaritano Hospital in Sao Paulo and two days later, on 25 October, she was moved to the Hospital Municipal dos Servidores Publicos, where almost immediately she was admitted to the intensive care unit, where she spent her last 21 days.

Her demise was agonising, a plastic tube inserted down her throat, unable to tell anyone how she felt, although the tears in her eyes must have made that pretty obvious. Patches of her once long brown hair had fallen out, too. Her death certificate...cites her time of death as 7.10 am and lists the cause of death as 'multiple organ failure, septicaemia, urinary infection'. Coldly it adds: 'Leaves no children. Leaves no property. Leaves no will.'"

(all bolding mine)

Please take a moment to watch this moving tribute to Ana Carolina (music by Maroon 5):

Such a tragedy, such a loss.


To read more about Ana Carolina Reston and other models who have died from anorexia and/or bulimia, please click on the links below:

HOW MANY MODELS HAVE TO DIE ?

ARE THINNESS LAWS TOO HEAVY-HANDED?

FRANCE TABLES NEW "ANOREXIA" LAW

ABC NEWS FLASH !!! GOOD MORNING AMERICA and 20/20 REPORT ON THE DEADLY KIMKINS DIET SCAM, HEIDI DIAZ/KIMMER and ANOREXIA NERVOSA

And please click the link below to read an excellent article from The Guardian about Ana Carolina Reston:

http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/fashion/story/0,,1987945,00.html

LINK:
http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/fashion/story/0,,1987945,00.html

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BRAIN TEASER: TRY THIS A-LEVELS EXAM...

Can you solve this in one minute or under?

Note the spelling error in the first question :^)

(Click the exam sheet to enlarge it)

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