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Only 2 percent of the US population are underweight (down from 4 percent in the 1960s). It hardy seems the pressing health concern. http://www.healthnews.com/f

• kevinh 16y ago
  Yes, but the underweight people tend to be certain groups of children's role models. While we shouldn't be encouraging our children to be obese, we certainly also shouldn't be pointing them towards models who are clearly anorexic and consider them to be our standard of beauty.
  • hugh3 16y ago
    "Clearly anorexic" models haven't really been "in" since the early 90s, and even then most of them weren't anorexic, just skinny. There has been an interesting divergence between "fashion model" and "sex symbol" since the days of the "supermodel" (a term one rarely hears nowadays), and today's sex symbols are back to mostly being actresses and singers. This is largely because the body types which make clothes look best are not really the body types than men are most attracted to. What was my point? Oh yes, there are very few genuinely underweight people seen as role models. Keira Knightley, perhaps.