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Size – Zero is un-Indian and un-healthy

May 21, 2008

NEW DELHI: Ultra thin looks are not in. New trend set by “bebo” Kareena Kapoor may look excellent on Page 3 circuit and on 70 mm screen but they are forcing Indian women towards extreme dieting, and what’s more, being “un Indianized”, avow doctors and nutritionists.

Countries like France are planning of imposing ban on media images glamorizing skinny women after studies found adequate proof to “implicate” media role in enhance women’s anxiety about their bodies.

University of Wisconsin scholars Shelly Grabe and psychology professor Janet Hyde have found that super thin images of actresses and models made women choice to harmful practices like extreme dieting. They analyzed seventy seven preceding studies involving over 15,000 subjects.

In India, the media has been gleaming eyed about Kareena Kapoor’s lean looks in her current release “Tashan”. This trend is an about-turn from former decades when Bollywood prided itself on its well artistic curvaceous women, the symbol of traditional Indian femaleness.

The bollywoods’ first “size zero” female lead, Kareena Kapoor, 28, is causing fret to nutritionists and experts. They fear that the Western standard of get thin bodies may pretense psychological and health problems to millions of young females in the country who look up to Bollywood as their role models.

Kareena Kapoor lost quite a lot of pounds for the movie “Tashan” to fit into derisive denim cut off and skimpy bustier. The actress says the “lean mean look” that the movie demanded was the result of power yoga and a special “super-slim” diet.


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