What is your opinion ?

The Commission of Science and Technology of Brazilian Senate has just approved a project that forbids models who have a bodymass index bellow 18 to take part in advertisings and fashion shows.Doctors, models and fashion stylists disagree with this project, according to them, it would be more efficient to do medical follow up on the models health than to forbid them to work. Some doctors claim that having a low BMI does not necessarily mean that the person is unhealthy. There are some models like Gisele Bundchen whose BMI is lower than 18 and are in perfect health condition. Some months ago, models were rejected on the runway in Spain due to their low body-mass index.Click on the likns bellow and read the following articles

"Spanish fashion show rejects too-skinny models" http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14748549

"When is thin too Thin?"by Eric Wilson http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/21/fashion/21MODELS.html?pagewanted=1Questions

"The weight debate gets heavy"http://www.stylelist.com/blog/tag/BMI/



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What is your opinion? Is it necessary to be thin to be beautiful ? Should models with an BMI bellow 18 be forbidden from being in advertisements and fashion shows? Why?/Why not? What should the government do? What should parents do in order to prevent their children from being influenced by the media ? Once you have thought about this subject post your opinion, and comment on what two friends said. If you want, feel free to upload a picture, a video, a text, a song about this subject after all this is your space!!!

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BEAUTY QUOTES

Read the following quotes about beauty. What do they mean? Do you agree with them? Discuss with your partner and post your answers. make sure you also read your friends'comments and reply to 2 of them.

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." Confucius

"A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful." Karl Kraus

"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, she is beautiful because you love her." Author Unknown