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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

A well-written New York Times piece on today's "ideal" feminine form. The article covers not only image, but also eating disorders and how size affects the menstrual cycle as well.

As Dr. Rose E. Frisch, professor emeritus at the Harvard School of Public Health, points out in "Female Fertility and the Body Fat Connection" , "Something so small as a five-pound weight loss or gain around the threshold weight can turn menstrual cycles on or off."

The brain says no to producing the hormones needed for ovulation, Dr. Frisch says, because "underweight women do not have the relative fatness necessary to have a viable infant."

Good to see this in the media.

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Unless you're naturally thin. In which case it's really quite offensive.