Comments on: The Dress That Sparked The Rumor http://www.starling-fitness.com/archives/2007/05/05/the-dress-that-sparked-the-rumor/ Daily writings about fitness, diet, and health Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:56:34 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: B. http://www.starling-fitness.com/archives/2007/05/05/the-dress-that-sparked-the-rumor/#comment-105398 B. Sat, 12 May 2007 00:38:56 +0000 http://www.starling-fitness.com/archives/2007/05/05/the-dress-that-sparked-the-rumor/#comment-105398 <p>Yeah! Thin acceptance! I like it. I hate the narrow, narrow range that women in the media are expected to (literally) fit into. Get "too" fat, get ridiculed, get "too" thin, ridiculed. (Can we call this the "Goldylocks syndrome?")</p> <p>I myself am curvy, but I hate when people refer to curvy women as "real women." All women are real women. There are many kinds of bodies and I suspect the call of "anorexia!" Is just the same old health-as-an-excuse-to-be-mean thing that is going on when people feel compelled to point out that someone is fat.</p> Yeah! Thin acceptance! I like it. I hate the narrow, narrow range that women in the media are expected to (literally) fit into. Get “too” fat, get ridiculed, get “too” thin, ridiculed. (Can we call this the “Goldylocks syndrome?”)

I myself am curvy, but I hate when people refer to curvy women as “real women.” All women are real women. There are many kinds of bodies and I suspect the call of “anorexia!” Is just the same old health-as-an-excuse-to-be-mean thing that is going on when people feel compelled to point out that someone is fat.

]]> By: The Rotund http://www.starling-fitness.com/archives/2007/05/05/the-dress-that-sparked-the-rumor/#comment-104982 The Rotund Wed, 09 May 2007 21:08:04 +0000 http://www.starling-fitness.com/archives/2007/05/05/the-dress-that-sparked-the-rumor/#comment-104982 <p>Tara, to be anorexic is to have a certain relationship with food and a certain way of viewing the body. It is NOT BMI-dependent:</p> <p>To be diagnosed as having anorexia nervosa, according to the DSM-IV-TR, a person must display:</p> <ol> <li>Refusal to maintain body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for age and height (e.g., weight loss leading to maintenance of body weight less than 85% of that expected; or failure to make expected weight gain during period of growth, leading to body weight less than 85% of that expected).</li> <li>Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat.</li> <li>Disturbance in the way in which one's body weight or shape is experienced, undue influence of body weight or shape on self-evaluation, or denial of the seriousness of the current low body weight.</li> <li>In postmenarcheal, premenopausal females (women who have had their first menstrual period but have not yet gone through menopause), amenorrhea (the absence of at least three consecutive menstrual cycles).</li> <li>Or other eating related disorders.</li> </ol> Tara, to be anorexic is to have a certain relationship with food and a certain way of viewing the body. It is NOT BMI-dependent:

To be diagnosed as having anorexia nervosa, according to the DSM-IV-TR, a person must display:

  1. Refusal to maintain body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for age and height (e.g., weight loss leading to maintenance of body weight less than 85% of that expected; or failure to make expected weight gain during period of growth, leading to body weight less than 85% of that expected).
  2. Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat.
  3. Disturbance in the way in which one’s body weight or shape is experienced, undue influence of body weight or shape on self-evaluation, or denial of the seriousness of the current low body weight.
  4. In postmenarcheal, premenopausal females (women who have had their first menstrual period but have not yet gone through menopause), amenorrhea (the absence of at least three consecutive menstrual cycles).
  5. Or other eating related disorders.
]]> By: Tara http://www.starling-fitness.com/archives/2007/05/05/the-dress-that-sparked-the-rumor/#comment-104707 Tara Tue, 08 May 2007 04:03:57 +0000 http://www.starling-fitness.com/archives/2007/05/05/the-dress-that-sparked-the-rumor/#comment-104707 <p>Sorry, but no 400 lb person is anorexic. thats not even possible. to be anorexic is to have at least a BMI under 18.5 and there are many other qualifications. any 400 lb person has a BMI of AT LEAST 20 therefore not putting them anywhere near the realm of anorexia. if a morbidly obese person starves themselves then they have ED-NOS not anorexia.</p> Sorry, but no 400 lb person is anorexic. thats not even possible. to be anorexic is to have at least a BMI under 18.5 and there are many other qualifications. any 400 lb person has a BMI of AT LEAST 20 therefore not putting them anywhere near the realm of anorexia. if a morbidly obese person starves themselves then they have ED-NOS not anorexia.

]]> By: Dani http://www.starling-fitness.com/archives/2007/05/05/the-dress-that-sparked-the-rumor/#comment-104340 Dani Sat, 05 May 2007 21:31:33 +0000 http://www.starling-fitness.com/archives/2007/05/05/the-dress-that-sparked-the-rumor/#comment-104340 <p>I agree. There are people over 400 lbs. who are anorexic and there are thin people that consume 3,000 calories a day. Assumptions are dangerous. Very good blog. Thank you.</p> I agree. There are people over 400 lbs. who are anorexic and there are thin people that consume 3,000 calories a day. Assumptions are dangerous. Very good blog. Thank you.

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