• In fact, there is an entire culture around diets known as the "diet culture," which encourages the pursuit of thinness through regular dieting. (christianity.com)
  • I remember well how this absurd obsession with thinness began. (appleinsider.com)
  • An obsession about one detail, thinness, can mean failure elsewhere. (appleinsider.com)
  • Dr Volonte says the obsession with thinness dates back to the birth of industrial production techniques. (accessibletrainingbuilder.com)
  • A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. (psychologytoday.com)
  • The media promotes people's fear of fat and obsession with thinness. (cswd.org)
  • In the world of Reverend Earl, the heightened obsession with avoiding the Sin of Gluttony feeds (the verb is inevitable) a blend of religio-capitalism whose stated goal is helping each member achieve the state of Afterfat but is primarily designed to sustain mass self-loathing and fund the Reverend's own dark fetishes. (blogcritics.org)
  • In the writer's view, our cultural obsession with thinness is symptomatic of a darker neurosis: fear of aging and dying (in this, Reed's work is a spiritual kin to fx's Nip/Tuck teleseries). (blogcritics.org)
  • In a world obsessed with body size and appearance, society's idealization of thinness promotes and sustains eating disorders. (psychcentral.com)
  • Kudos to Anna Wintour for taking such bold steps to address the much-maligned problem of waif-like models in her magazine-and the heart wrenching repercussions in the skyrocketing incidences of eating disorders and plummeting body image of young women around the world. (forbes.com)
  • She calls out the medical establishment's tendency to understate the danger of thinness and overstate the danger of fatness when it comes to menstruation and fertility. (inverse.com)
  • When the Reverend Earl turns out to be nursing a secret that runs counter to his public persona, it's no surprise to the reader, but it's consistent with Reed's view of the way consumer culture sells fatness and thinness to the exact same clients. (blogcritics.org)
  • All participants were intere in many developing world communities, viewed faceetoeface by an interviewer who fatness is culturally associated with beauty, belonged to this Saharawi ethnic group. (who.int)
  • Critics are mistaken in thinking thinness is crucial to the movie's story or to George's character but correct in attributing importance to her anxiety about gaining weight. (queensjournal.ca)
  • And second, she underestimates the thinness of cosmopolitanism and the crucial humanizing role played by identity politics in a deracinating world of contracts, markets, and legal personhood. (bostonreview.net)
  • This belief further promotes the harmful and untrue message that disordered eating results exclusively in thinness or can only look one way. (queensjournal.ca)
  • It's a stretch for the creators to try to link these monologues into one "sucker punch of real life," as the program also explains in an effort not to suffer the slings and arrows of theatrical showcasing, but the talents of these six participants trump the thinness of the concept. (backstage.com)
  • In The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023 , the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported that almost 735 million people, or 9.2% of the global population, were undernourished in 2023, which is 122 million more people than in 2019. (msdmanuals.com)
  • are diet trends that many people are readily familiar with in today's world. (christianity.com)
  • In today's world, optical communication technology and wireless access are essential for high-speed data communication. (consumerelectronicsnet.com)
  • Periods - the process of shedding blood and endometrial tissue - affect half the people on our planet, with menstruators in the industrialized world experiencing an average of 400 periods in their lives. (inverse.com)
  • These findings support the hypothesis that drive for thinness arises as a competitive weapon to assure a secure place in the social world. (ijpsy.com)
  • The response in Wales to the Warwick Commission findings is an example of the thinness of cognitive variation. (theatre-wales.co.uk)
  • Protesting the selection of an actress because of her social advocacy or race is a blatant attempt to wield existing prejudices against women who don't conform to outdated, racist perceptions of a correct world order. (queensjournal.ca)
  • Also, we tested whether insecure striving moderates the impact of a low social rank on drive for thinness, in women. (ijpsy.com)
  • Furthermore, insecure striving was a significant moderator between a low social rank and the endorsement of the importance of thinness and dieting behaviours in women. (ijpsy.com)
  • By following a certain diet, men, and women are led to believe they will be happier and healthier as they pursue thinness through unhealthy dieting behaviors. (christianity.com)
  • If the heterogeneity of the population growth between the regions of the world and between countries in the same subregion is considered, countries from and East and Southern Africa subregions seem to have lower population growth rates than countries in other large subregions, which show significantly higher increases. (bvsalud.org)
  • Diet-culture keeps us focused on changing our bodies instead of changing the world. (psychologytoday.com)
  • For those of you not familiar, it refers to a system of beliefs that equates thinness with health and moral value and demands that we devote our precious time, money, and energy to the noble pursuit of weight loss. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Pushing the boundaries of horological complexity once again, Bvlgari marks its seventh world record in the field of ultimate thinness with the Octo Finissimo Perpetual Calendar watch. (bulgari.com)
  • Because Piaget may have the perfect timepiece for you with its Altiplano Gem-set Skeleton, boasting "World Record" thinness. (paulfrasercollectibles.com)
  • This achievement translates to an optical power supply capacity of 14 watt/km, setting a world record (Figure 2, left). (consumerelectronicsnet.com)
  • The interpretation is done according to the WHO (World Health Organization) classification. (gurze.com)
  • Diet-culture stems from racist, sexist, puritanical notions that deprivation is a virtue, pleasure is sinful, and we can all lift ourselves up by our bootstraps and obtain perfect health and thinness if we just eat the right things (for more on this, I highly recommend Dr. Sabrina String's book Fearing the Black Body ). (psychologytoday.com)
  • Our dream is a world in which a person's life, health, well-being, and happiness are unrelated to that person's weight. (cswd.org)
  • This movement does not include those who must follow certain diets for health concerns and illness, but rather is about dieting to achieve thinness or an ideal image. (christianity.com)
  • According to the World Health Organization energy intake is among the highest in the (WHO), adolescents comprise about 19% of world (e.g. (who.int)
  • prosperity, health and prestige [ 6-8 ], and Informed consent was obtained verbally thinness is perceived to be a sign of ill from each participant before they took part health or poverty. (who.int)
  • The World Health Organization or obese [ 9-11 ]. (who.int)
  • The population of the World Health Organization's (WHO) African Region was estimated to be 1 120 161 000 in 2020 and about 14.4% of the world's population of 7 758 157 000. (bvsalud.org)
  • The time and effort to creating absurd levels of thinness distracts from what the next MacBook Air really needs. (appleinsider.com)
  • At the same time, thinness became firmly associated with wealth - having the time and money to work on your body - an aspiration that has been deeply entrenched by advertising and the day-to-day practices of the fashion industry. (accessibletrainingbuilder.com)
  • To achieve the watch's stunning thinness, Piaget 'threw down the gauntlet' and asked its in-house team of watchmakers and jewellers to build the watch's entire movement in diamonds. (paulfrasercollectibles.com)
  • Such diets have often proven to be risky in the attempt to achieve thinness. (christianity.com)
  • One need only to look at "thinspiration" accounts on social media to see the lengths that people are willing to go to obtain and maintain thinness at all costs. (christianity.com)
  • The ease with which so many internalized Rachel McAdams' thinness as central to Regina George's portrayal, and are now defending that belief, is telling of the extent to which fatphobia is ingrained in North American popular culture. (queensjournal.ca)
  • Because the movement emphasizes thinness, those who fall into the trap of the diet culture often become obsessed with obtaining the perfect look physically. (christianity.com)
  • In places where everyday life is sometimes described in terms of its 'thinness', access to media provides richness, colour and texture which are, in some ways, comparable to life outside. (le.ac.uk)
  • And "they don't want to compromise performance or features for thinness," he said. (twice.com)
  • Then how can You sit back and do so little about my unholy world? (insight.org)
  • With customized prescription, 1.67 hi index lens, anti-reflective coating, and scratch-resistant coating, it provides a comfortable and clear view of the VR world for only $49.99 . (zennioptical.com)
  • It's been well-documented that seeing super thin models can exacerbate disordered eating in teenaged girls, and as model thinness has progressed from willowy to wasted in recent years, the concern has become a hot topic of conversation in the industry. (forbes.com)
  • Weighted only 133.4 (Not include ODD) and 15mm thinness, MD-9102 has earned itself rightful place as one of the lightest and slimmest DVD-RW in the world. (techwarelabs.com)
  • There are 8 billion people in the world Mr. Dawkins, how many letters have you had? (conservapedia.com)
  • The number of undernourished people in the world has been increasing since 2014. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The thinness of the lenses also helps to reduce distortion and provide a clearer view of the VR world. (zennioptical.com)
  • The Zenni's VR lens insert includes an anti-reflective coating that helps to reduce glare and reflections, providing a clearer view of the VR world. (zennioptical.com)
  • He took upon him the woes of the world till he was bowed and bent, as with the weight of years. (gutenberg.org)
  • The group achieved world renown when they macramed their club house and then shellacked it as a tribute to the durability of the art form and the greatness of Vladimir Lenin. (hyperallergic.com)
  • The PNNL team is a world-class group in oxide thin film growth," said Kelsey Stoerzinger, a collaborator, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Oregon State University, and PNNL joint appointee. (pnnl.gov)
  • It could be a show they see on TV glamorizing thinness. (chicagotribune.com)
  • They show us the world outside the hermetic camps, where mainstream religions have been driven underground and unregulated eating contests are held in restaurants for the edification of an audience of fascinated/horrified diners. (blogcritics.org)
  • The thinness of the glass also enables more light to pass through, allowing for higher brightness without increasing power consumption, he continued. (twice.com)
  • Today we're joined by content creator, activist, and light of the streaming world MermaidRoyal ! (nzxt.com)
  • It was only when growth slowed, deficits at all levels continued to swell and stubborn unemployment levels began to look more structural than cyclical that the America's role in the world (as 'world policeman') came into question. (project-syndicate.org)
  • His world was corrupt, but he believed in personal purity, of all things! (insight.org)
  • After fleeing the predatory world of modeling in New York, my parents left the city behind and followed the sun all the way down to Coconut Grove, Florida, to find whatever work they could, which, ironically, turned out to be more modeling. (hachettebookgroup.com)
  • A few weeks ago Art Review announced the Top 100 power brokers in the art world but we thought they missed the real story. (hyperallergic.com)
  • If you accept yourself, the whole world will accept you. (cswd.org)
  • In a world where 90 percent accept the concept of a supreme being, Dardenne affectingly, poignantly makes his case, to an uncomfortably hushed audience, for a life spent doing good and living well without the need of prayer or the fear of getting a lightning bolt up the spine for not believing in fairy tales. (backstage.com)
  • During the Second World War, Sunderland was a target of Luftwaffe bombs, so Grigson and her sister Mary were sent to Casterton School, a boarding school in Westmorland. (wikipedia.org)
  • your body is not a target for the world in the way that someone in a bigger body is. (kenw.org)
  • A Unicorn in a World of Donkeys offers a playbook for living a creative and authentic life. (hachettebookgroup.com)
  • It hardly seems appropriate for those in the real world of the twenty-first century. (insight.org)
  • This planet near TW Hydrae should take 200 times longer to form because the alien world is moving slower, and has less debris to pick up. (universetoday.com)
  • Recall that this world is no more than 28 times the mass of Earth, as best as we can figure. (universetoday.com)
  • Even in colonial times, the new world meant starting over again, meant freedom from rigid and heavily freighted traditional cultures. (bostonreview.net)
  • Ben Giroux's involves an inept search for love, boldly going "where taller, more attractive men have gone before" in a world of cyber-dating, his dependence on hair goop, Facebook poking, and an obsessive use of Febreze proving "all for naught. (backstage.com)
  • Huawei claims the Ascend D quad is 49 percent faster than 'the other fastest smartphones in the world,' and though we're not sure what those phones are, it's a pretty bold claim. (theverge.com)
  • Clancy, who leads a feminist science lab at Urbana-Champaign that studies environmental stressors and menstrual cycles, quickly and efficiently dispatches with the menstruation myths that have long characterized the "Daddy Knows Best" gynecological world. (inverse.com)
  • Clancy quickly and efficiently dispatches the menstruation myths that have long characterized the "Daddy Knows Best" gynecological world. (inverse.com)
  • Edward T. Welch describes how easy it is, in a weight-conscious world that also uses food for comfort, to take the small steps that lead to a full-blown eating disorder. (wtsbooks.com)