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Starved child in Somalia. Linked to 1 ⁄ 3 of all child deaths, malnutrition is especially dangerous for women and children. Malnourished women will usually have malnourished fetuses while they are pregnant, which can lead to physically and mentally stunted children, creating a cycle of malnutrition and underdevelopment.
After almost a year of carrying the extra weight, I told my partner that I wanted to prioritize weight loss for health purposes. “All right, baby,” he said.
Being underweight is an established [21] risk factor for osteoporosis, even for young people. This is seen in individuals suffering from relative energy deficiency in sport , formerly known as female athlete triad: when disordered eating or excessive exercise cause amenorrhea, hormone changes during ovulation leads to loss of bone mineral density.
After years of being called a "big girl," grief and depression triggered my eating disorder. But my anorexia didn't look like what I saw on TV, and I was rewarded for finally being skinny. For 15 ...
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TV and billboard campaigns still use slogans like “Too much screen time, too much kid” and “Being fat takes the fun out of being a kid.” Cat Pausé, a researcher at Massey University in New Zealand, spent months looking for a single public health campaign, worldwide, that attempted to reduce stigma against fat people and came up empty.
Unfortunately, thin-idealized bodies are attributed with self-control, success, and discipline, and therefore proclaimed as being desirable and socially valued. “Being slim means resisting the temptations that surround consumers in countries of overabundance and wealth” (Thompson et al. 1995: Halliwell et al. 2004).
And I was dealing with people bullying me for being too skinny and too athletic," she explains. "My dad used to joke with me all the time and be like, 'Hey, why are you always in jeans? Get out of ...