France votes to ban ultra-thin models in anorexia crackdown

France votes to ban ultra-thin models in eating disorder crackdown

Have you ever seen fat barbie dolls? It has also called as plus-sized barbie dolls.

When i watched this news video,on the upper side, in the class,  I've reminded the fat barbie doll which was a worldwide sentation last year. I think the way people think  has changed a lot! It could not make sense at all, if i were born in a long years ago. Isn't it ineresting?

A Fat Barbie Doll Information: 
http://www.elephantjournal.com/2014/04/finally-a-barbie-doll-with-average-proportions/

In the past, most images of models were 10-30 percent underweigh. But currently it's easier to see plus-sized models and it's going around you, such as Laura wells, Crystal Renn, Jennie Runk and Gee Yang Kim(김지양) who is the first plus-sized model in South Korea that have strick standards of their apperance. What a nice and pretty woman she is!

South Korea Plus-sized model, Gee Yang Kim

 

Content
1. Models would have to present a doctor's certificate saying that they were at a healthy enough weight to work. (anyone employing models who was employing people without such a certificate would be penalized)
2. outlaw internet sites that  encourage anorexia.
3. require that all photographs of which show model's bodies, if they had been retouched, either to make the figure look heavier or thinner than it really is, the photo would have to be labeled.

the law is that all models would have to at least within the normal weight not the underweight range.

Difference between the French and American sensibilities :
- France are willing to regulate very extensively, great detail many aspects of life, use the powers of goverment to do
-American are much more relucatant to regulate.


Vocabulary
-anorexia (antonym of bulimia-binge and purge)
-susceptible
-reluctant (= hesitant, unwilling)
-prescriptive (=enforcement of a rule or method)
-provision (= measure)
-sensibility
-senate
-House of Representatives
-legislative
-judicial
-psychiatrist
-psychologist
-slip into (= gradually, step by step)
-outlaw (= something illegal)
-BMR basal metabolic rate