We’ve all had to deal with it at some point - (unwanted) weight-gain. Whether it was holiday over eating, a cruise, or the ultimate (mostly) uncontrollable event in life: pregnancy, we have all at some time or another said to ourselves enough is enough.


The Sydney Morning Herald has an important story on the abuse of rapid weight loss products like meal replacement shakes and fasting or detox packages.
Clare Collins, of the University of Newcastle, said young girls were buying the products in order to starve themselves to achieve the super-skinny figures of their celebrity idols.
Has it really come to this point? I’ve seen high school girls who look like concentration camp survivors and as many who are on the opposite extreme and appear to be attempting to break records for ass size–but both groups have one thing in common: an absolute obsession with food. One girl compulsively pushes away the food she wants and starves while hating herself for being imperfect, the other girl eats everything in sight and hates herself for giving in and being imperfect.
This madness is beginning to extend well into the realms what was once considered so extreme as to warrant institutionalization a short 30 years ago, but is now just another mainstream teen ‘issue’.
Questions need to be asked by parents; what can we do to save our daughters from the cultural influences that are leading them into these self destructive behaviors? What exactly is the factor that sets these obsessions off? Is there a way to mitigate the damaging influences or prevent exposure to them from the start?
The biggest question of all of course: Is it something that we are or are notdoing as parents that is creating this ‘lost’ generation of emotional cripples and fractured personalities?

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