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Yeah, but is glorifying thinness preventing obesity?
I have not noticed that glorifying thinness has lead to a *decrease* in obesity. Has anybody else? I mean the models get thinner, the percentage of overweight and obese people get larger, so clearly thin images are *not* motivating a lot of people.
If anything, I'm going to hypothesize that the more unattainable the ideal body is, the *less* overweight people are motivated to lose weight. After all, if it can't be done, you may as well eat another Twinkie.
Perfectionism, in any endeavor, is the enemy of the good.