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Starving in the City


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    People, we get it, obesity is unhealthy, and not very attractive either. But here's a news flash. Anorexia is pretty unhealthy and ugly too.
Pretty much everyone knows that a healthy mind, body and soul involves living squarely within your BMI (body mass index).
Well everyone except residents of New York City, it seems. Walking down the streets of Manhattan, you'd be forgiven for thinking you've stumbled into a concentration camp. It's an endless catwalk of underfed females, and when you think it couldn't possibly get any thinner, you turn a corner and bam, another skeleton clicks its way by.
Women are fighting fat like it's the devil's curse, never mind that our brains are 60% fat and our important organs such as kidneys require fat to hold them in position and allow them to function. If you are a single woman living in New York City, fat is evil and must be exorcised at all costs.
I understand that New York City has a disproportionate ratio of women to men, that competition is steep and it's important to look one's best. I understand that some women feel the need to wear cocktail dresses in the middle of the day and that for certain woman the monthly make up bill is higher than the rent. What I don't understand is women who believe that starving themselves to dangerously low weights increases their chances of ensnaring Mr Right.
I mean come on guys, don't you desire a girl who is happy, healthy, able to hold a conversation and has the shape of a fertile woman who might some day bare you children? Or does it really turn you on to date a girl who throws up after every meal, is cranky from lack of food, has the bone density of an eighty year old and faints every now and then?
Frankly, ladies, a guy who wants to date a skeleton is anything but Mr Right. It makes me mad to see well fed males strolling proudly alongside their starving girlfriends. Since when was a skeleton a status symbol?
On an anthropological level, it would make sense for a man to be drawn to the girl who demonstrates, health, stability and fertility, but clearly that isn't the case in New York City, where women who look like twelve year old boys are ranked higher than women who look like women.
Has something gone seriously wrong with this society? Or is this just nature's way of redressing the balance? After all if enough women starve to death, then New York City may one day see an equal male to female ratio. What other explanation could there possibly be?
Dr Annabelle R Charbit, author of A Life Lived Ridiculously, grew up in London, UK, and has been writing since 2006, when her comedy play, Sound Advice, was performed by CP Theatre Productions in London, UK. In 2007, she was published in the London Paper and in the British Neuroscience Association's Summer Bulletin. In 2010 she wrote for TheFrisky.com, an online magazine who commissioned her after noticing her blog, Crazy in a Crazy World. Dr Charbit holds a PhD in Neuroscience from University College London.



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