Wednesday, April 18, 2007

The Truth About Size 0 (brain capacity)

Watching a doco tonight with Louise Redknapp doing some kind of size 0 evilness/negative impacts of the whole starve-self-til-you-look-like-a-walking-collection-of-bones, where she went from an already-skinny UK size 8 to UK size 4 (which is the US size 0).

Okay, it's saying it's bad and focuses oh-so-briefly on the serious problems being caused by crash dieting. And it is to crash diet - it screws up your system. But in a weird way, it's like a "Your manual for an eating disorder! At least you'll be thin, bitch!"

But although the chick, her husband, her doctor, friends, random celebs who've had eating disorders, etc are saying it's terribly bad, she goes back to LA and everyone's like, "Oooh, look at you. Still got that extra 5kg to shift??"

These people are emaciated!

Just like their brains...

Maybe I'm just grumpy because I haven't been able to eat properly for the past nearly four weeks and I know totally why people who are doing the eating disorder thing are grouchy.

But I swear to God, I will sit on the Barry guy who's saying that Louise as an emaciated skeleton isn't looking thin at all and she could probably go a bit more off and feed him chocolate cake if I ever see him.

Ugh, I want chocolate.

Anyways, Mic and I are talking about the "doco" and both agree that it seems a bit suss. The thing ended before you could see how she'd go about getting back to her original non-anorexic-BMI weight, unlike with Super Size Me where it looks at both sides of the coin. Frankly, the whole thing seemed rather too win-win - she got to lose loads of weight, and seem like it was all done in a nice, charitable way to "warn" others about how absolutely naughty it is to starve.

Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if she'd also had something in the doco about regaining the weight healthily, avoiding putting on way more weight following crash diets, etc.

And as Mic said: Hmmm, it's like she's watched Super Size Me, and said "Wow, wouldn't it be good to make a doco were instead of eating junk food and getting fat, you eat health and get thin? hehehe! I'm just a girl, oh you!"

Funny thing is, there's something about similar issues with BMI/uber-skinny people on Dateline on SBS and so far it's far more intelligent in just 10 minutes than an entire hour doco. Although I've done a Technorati search about the doco and it seems like we missed out on some chunks of it, compared to the version that was shown in the UK (reading other's blogs about some scenes, etc, which didn't seem to appear in the version we got here in Aus)... Hmmmm...

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